In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.

Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.

A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact.

It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to keep yourself inspired.

I know a lie when I hear one.

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.