Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Everyone is doing forensics.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.