If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

So far he's bringing his A-game.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.