A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.