Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

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

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.

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