You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.