"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."

"I cured with the power that came through me."

"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."

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."