“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.”

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

“We have to keep our God placated with prayers, and even then we are never sure of him--how much higher and finer is the Indian's God......Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge.”

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”

“Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”