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

Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.

Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.

Everything you do with a horse is a dance.

Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesn’t possess. And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. The horse doesn’t possess any of those things. If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. And the way God made the horse, he left that out.

Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.