When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
