In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

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

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.