Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.