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

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.

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

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.

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

Every bonsaidreams of being a tall tree - until the wind blows

Once you talk to your angels you will never feel truly alone ever again in this lifetime.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

Golf and dating don't mix.

I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency.

If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.

I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see that hard side of her."

Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.