The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

The fat you eat, is the fat you wear.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.