teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse's muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints . . . The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space.

You have no enemy until you make one.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.