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

Know the Power that is Peace.

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

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.

When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.

The center of the universe is everywhere.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions