The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

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.

No religion is higher than humanity.

It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing—helping someone fit in.

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

My message for people to not take anything for granted, to respect what they might not understand.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.