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

Everything tries to be round.

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

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

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.