"[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors."
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"No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you."
"There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr..."
"Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed."
"When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors."
"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
"Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?"
"In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams."
"'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before."
"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."
"Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?"
"When life closes a door, God opens a window."
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you."
"Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing."
"In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem."
"There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close."
"It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared."
"The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable."