We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.