Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.

Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.

He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.