Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.