The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.