I refuse to sit on my laurels.

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.

We ought to love one another.

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

Maybe you'll win when hell freezes over."He raised an eyebrow."That could be easily arranged.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.