You should be in charge of the gas and your horse should be in charge of the brakes.

Take the time it takes, so that it takes less time.

Expect a lot, accept a little, reward often.

Release pressure at the slightest try.

Green and green equals black and blue.

Slow and right beats fast and wrong, but fast and right beats everything.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

What I think of me is none of my business. (Linda - when you are being overly self-critical)

Horses are natural born skeptics, cowards, claustrophobics, and panic-aholics, by nature and in varying degrees.

A horse can only move 6 ways - up, down, forward, backward, left, right, and sometimes all at once!

If you always do what you've always done, then you'll continue to get what you've always got.

Play with the horse that shows up.

A horse is like a computer, it won't always do what you want, but it will always do what you tell it to.

Be as light as possible and as firm as necessary.

Use love, language and leadership in equal doses.

Expect obedience, but be ready to correct, not one more than the other.

Be effective to be understood, be understood to be effective.

Cause the wrong thing to be difficult and allow the right thing to be easy.

Don't make or let, instead use cause and allow. Know the difference.

Walk a mile or a minute in your horse's horseshoes.

Be as gentle as you can but as firm as necessary.

When you're firm, don't get mean or mad and when you're gentle,don't act like a sissy.

Don't bribe 'em with carrots, don't hit em with a stick. Find the middle of the road.

Be an extreme middle of the road-ist.

Don't get mad, get even-tempered.

If your horse wants to bolt, there's probably a nut loose in the saddle.

When in horseville, do as horses do.

When he's blinking he's thinking....when he's not, he's hot.

Savvy is knowing where to be, when to be, why to be and what to do when you get there, at any given moment and in any situation with a horse.

You know you do Parelli when you put the relationship with your horse first, you study in four savvies, you’re involved in never-ending self-improvement.

Focus gives you feel. Focus and feel give you timing. Focus, feel and timing give you balance.

Horses are made up of their spirit, innate characteristics and learned behavior.