The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.