Tell the people not to cry. Tell them to be happy.

We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.

Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

Love well, whip well.

I'm sorry about the dinner." "Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.