In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

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.

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.

Only when your old mental patterns have been ditched will you be able to put your ideas into action.

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen.

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.