You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

You can do nothing without prayer and everything with it. Anything worth worrying about is something worth praying about.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.