The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

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

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

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

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

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.