Quotes from Dan Brown

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

Nothing in Christianity is original.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

Madness breeds madness.

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else's truth.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Buddha had said: Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

We all fear what we do not understand.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist