"My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage."

"In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'"

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My father is an amazing man."

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."

"It is a steadfast truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."