"Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart."

"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."

"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active."

"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird."

"As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain."

"I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation."

"There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going."