“...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.”

“Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.”

“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.”

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”

“I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen..once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.”

“He saw blurry white forms. Why they all are wearing white? Langdon decided he was either in an asylum or heaven. From the burning in his throat, Langdon decided it could not be heaven.”

“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.”