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

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

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

Horses lend us the wings we lack.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.