Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.