A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

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.

Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together....The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.