"You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me."

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

"I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself."

"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."