Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian

My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.