It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.