If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.