What really matters is what you believe.

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

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

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

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.