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

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

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

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.

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.

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.