There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

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'.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Everybody needs somebody.

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.