we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Why can't I say anything normal?

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

So what if right now everything is wrong?