"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 know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength."

"I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices."

"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me."

"You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!"

"He who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A resilient spirit knows that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."