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.

Bears need people. People need bears.

You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

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

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

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.

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