Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.

From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog