And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

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

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.