We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Next to music, beer was best.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

If there was no darkness, there would be no opportunity for light to overcome it.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Dancing is like riding a bike.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.