I had no time for patience. It was a dull, slow-witted thing, so foreign to me that I couldn’t even figure out what it was that people did while they were being patient. You know? Patience isn’t even a verb.

Here’s the secret: never give up. Get a tortoise tattoo if you need to, but just stick it out, slowly and patiently, because consistency is the greatest kindness a horse will ever know.

First, if you’re fighting, you’ve lost already. Second, there’s no negotiating power in being right if it makes your horse wrong.

If the truth is that you’ll never be a world-class rider on a world-class horse, then why not do life-changing work? Ride a rescue.