A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

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

A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

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.

You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.