If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.

Because I love him so much and it hurts

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.