The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

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.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.

Horses lend us the wings we lack.