When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.

Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

Tell the people not to cry. Tell them to be happy.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.