They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.
If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.
For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you. ' Humans still say that to each other -- still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I'm saying that no one else has the right to say 'you must' to an animal -- or to another human.
The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.
Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.
Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.
If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.
Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.