Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

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

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

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

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.