"Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider."

“A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”

“You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.”

“It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.”

“If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person.”

“No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like hurricanes or earthquakes, some kind of mindless force of nature. But if they're real, then they have minds. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he's being read about and that you're somebody he may have to deal with. And I'm thinking what you did in Vegas went way, way beyond that." "What 'I' did? What about us? We were both there." "Yeah but I cut my hair since then. They probably think that was a different guy.”

“The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2005). “Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays”, p.67, Verso

“They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on”

“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”