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.

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

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.

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

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

If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.