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

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.

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

failure and obstacles are not the ultimate cause that deteriorate purpose but attitude and the mind

To maintain your honesty, one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood

It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.