I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.

The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.

A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.

Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

It is not good enough to get your horse to do what you want. It is far better to cause your horse to want to do it.

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.

The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.

When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right.

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends

There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

No matter what's going on in your life, don't let anybody take those dreams from you.

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.