My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

Whatever thought that activates a negative mood in your life, absolutely doesn't deserve a single moment in your mind.

Your enemies could dig a grave for your destiny, but only you could through it in it.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.