I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.