No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

I would say my poise comes from my faith.

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

I don't have any faith in the Republican Party. I don't have any faith in the Democrat Party. The only hope for this nation is God.