It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.