I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.

When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.