For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

The shadows cannot speak.

The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday

I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.