So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Every place is the center of the world.

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

May you always walk in Beauty.