While living I want to live well.

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

I was born where there were no enclosures.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.