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

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.

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

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

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

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.