I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

Music awakes the spirit of the mind.

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.

It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.