Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

The saddest day hath gleams of light The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night Some solitary star to cheer it.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.

Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

They say money rule the world, you can’t pay God with it

Sometimes we carry mistakes we haven't even made yet.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?