Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

I'm home in New Orleans!

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

They've spread like cancer. ISIS has spread like cancer.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.