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

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.

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.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

America and Canada are the best friends. We've always been the best friends.