A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. As an Onondaga friend put it to me, "you can't pick berries until the berries are ripe."

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.