“My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.”

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

Happiness, where forgiveness unfolds and peace begins.

Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

I’m going to give away a lot more than half my money. I’d be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I’m giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.