"I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you."

“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”

“God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, ". . . and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."”

“The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.”

“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”

“I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.”

Source : "Pioneer of Modern Native American Literature". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

“I think that Chairman Xi Jinping's courage tackling corruption is an important matter in the development of Chinese society. I also look forward to him showing a bit more flexibility in dealing with cross-strait relations. I hope that he can appreciate that Taiwan is a democratic society in which the leader has to follow the will of the people.”

“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”

“We are educating people out of their creative capacities.”