The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

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 don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

Live a life less ordinary.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.