Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

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.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.