Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Open your eyesOpen your earsOpen your mindOpen your heartThey are your portals to joy

Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

I just like having fun with my style and keeping it new.

If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.