Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

Safeguarding our health will allow us to fulfill our divine potential and serve others more effectively.

Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs).

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

Cloud Foundry is not exciting. What's exciting is what you can do with Cloud Foundry.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.