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.

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.

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

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

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

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

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