The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.