Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender fa… - Black Elk

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka , and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.

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