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

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”

“open your mind my friends, we fear what we do not understand.”

“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.”

“Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.”

“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.”

“Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally”