No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

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.

You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.