Quotes from Dan Brown

The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

point the way,' he was talking in metaphorical terms. This pointing-hand gesture—with its index finger and thumb extended upward—is a well-known symbol of the Ancient Mysteries, and it appears

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings.

Let your heart show you the way…and seize every opportunity to love fully!

The well-known Latin phrase—meaning "praise God"—was inscribed on the tip of the Washington Monument in script letters only one inch tall. On full display . . . and yet invisible to all. Laus

Edmond found it deeply distressing," Winston continued, "that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name. He believed that the universal truths of science could unite people—serving as a rallying point for future generations.

Scientists and spiritualists often use different vocabularies to describe the exact same mysteries of the universe. The conflicts are frequently over semantics, not substance.

New World Order," Langdon repeated, "based on scientific enlightenment. They called it their Luciferian Doctrine.

Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief. We

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Half an hour ago, at the appointed hour, Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca had entered the chapel. He walked to the front altar and gave opening prayer. Then, he unfolded his hands and spoke to them in a tone as direct as anything Mortati had ever heard from the altar of the Sistine.

being "soft" on misconduct was the best way to guarantee increasing misconduct.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin

To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.

your skepticism is one of your greatest strengths as an academic. It is also your greatest weakness. I know you well enough to know you're not a man I can ask to believe . . . only to trust.

Well, the meek were supposed to inherit the earth, but instead it has gone to the young—the technically inclined, those who stare into video screens rather than into their own souls.

The religion of the future, Einstein had predicted, will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Robert

yards, she recognized the light blue hull of the modified 747.

Just because the human mind can't imagine something happening … doesn't mean it won't.

Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church attendance among the fearful.

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children. The time for action has come. Not until we purge our species of superstitious thinking can we embrace all that our minds have to offer.