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.

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

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.

Do what makes you happy. Life is too short to live on other people's expectations

A good woman inspires a man

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

I enjoy different designers for different seasons and what they bring to it each and every season.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

To travel is to shop.