Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.