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.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

Bears need people. People need bears.

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

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.