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

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

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

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.

Bears need people. People need bears.