You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

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.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Do the things you were sent here to do effectively.

I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.