Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.