"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."

"I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it."

"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."

"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."

"Wisdom principle 54 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 99."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 65 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 5."

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."