"[voiceover] It seems every day ends with a miracle here. And whatever God may be, I thank God for this day."

"[voiceover] Many times I'd felt alone, but until this afternoon I'd never felt completely lonely."

"I had never really known who John Dunbar was. Perhaps because the name itself had no meaning. But as I heard my Sioux…"

"It was hard to know how to feel. I had never been in a battle like this one. This had not been a fight for territory …"

"[to his army captors who are interrogating him, in Lakota] My name is Dances with Wolves. I will not talk to you anym…"

"We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, h…"

"Dances With Wolves. I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my f…"

"[in Lakota, showing Dunbar an old Spanish Conquistador's helmet] The white men who wore this came around the time of …"

"You are the only white man I have ever known. I have thought about you a lot. More than you think. And I understand y…"

"The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a…"