“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.”

“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”

“The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.”

“Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.”

“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.”

“A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.”

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”

“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.”

“Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new”

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

“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.”