Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
I like to get to bed with a clear head.
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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.
Democracy. . . is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.