Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver

I can't explain some of the things I've seen and...I've done some things I can't explain.

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.