I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

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.

The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.

It's more than words & somehow more than actions could ever show. It's hard to explicate this feeling I have for you, but it's one I could live out the rest of my days trying to make you understand.

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

Away, you mouldy rogue, away!