We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

You whites make all the ammunition.

CHANGE WITH THE TIMES...The early bird will benefit the most, the ones who don't will be left out.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.