My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks.

You either WIN or you LEARN. Either way, you WIN!

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.