"That word which all the Vedas record, which all penances proclaim, which men desire when they live as religious disci…"

"But if the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and i…"

"A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Wate…"

"Then the bay horse spoke to me again and said: "See how your horses all come dancing!" I looked, and there were horse…"

"Behold," he said, "all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like rel…"

"Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived."

"Then a song of power came to me and I sang it there in the midst of that terrible place where I was. It went like this:"

"Then a Voice said: "Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see…"

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. …"

"My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."