White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.

When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.

She frowned at him. "Not every man thinks constantly of... of..."Darach grinned. "Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten until the day he dies, thinks frequently of that.

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

Love the quest marriage the conquest divorce the inquest.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I do my best to love everybody

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.