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

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.

The center of the universe is everywhere.

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

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