Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

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

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

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.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.