We design our lives through the power of choices.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.