I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

It does not take many words to tell the truth

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

I love my dogs and I give them affection all the time but it has to be at the right time or they get confused.

I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.