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.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

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

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.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Every place is the center of the world.