My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.

Graciously honor the freedom at which Christmas so peacefully - came into being.

Women and elephants never forget.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews the body.

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.