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

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.

Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

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

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

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