A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

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.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

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