The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

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

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

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

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

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.