I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

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.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

It’s not the dead people you got to worry about… It’s the living that are scary.

Climate change isn't out biggest problem. It's Islamic terrorism.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards.

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.