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

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.

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

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

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.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Why do bad guys in movies always love to whistle really slowly?

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.