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

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.

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

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

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.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.