The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it’s a vortex that can’t and won’t be stopped.

I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.

The Word tells us that God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Begin to talk and act as though it is true!

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.