A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find you”, Brannaman would say. “Be assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them.

Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.

The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.