“Sometimes I go about pitying myself. And all the while I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”

“Dream Song of Thunders:Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky. ”

“Sometimes I go about pitying myself when all the time I am carried on great wings across the sky.”

“There are many different kinds of knowledge.The way of the heart and spirit can guide us in amore trustworthy way than the intellect alone.”

“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”