Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.