Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?