The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

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.

The jar of oil, shall never run out.

You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.