There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

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.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.