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

Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

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.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

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