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?"

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

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

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

Bears need people. People need bears.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

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