September 21
Put a lid on all the nonsense, the frenzied chatter, the idle conversation that gets around to criticizing - with or without reason.
Talking is like a leak in the dam. At first it is only a tiny trickle but the longer it goes the greater the flow, until it brgins to gush. One comment can bring on another and another, and before we know it we have said things we never intended to say.
It is enough to know something, to feel it and think it, but to speak opens the way for our words to be recorded forever in the atmosphere. What do we want to our credit?
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.
CHIEF JOSEPH
NEZ PERCE