Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

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

A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

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

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

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