“With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky.”

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

“When one door closes, another opens… into another room, another space, other happenings. There are many doors to open and close in our lives. Some doors we leave ajar, where we hope and plan to return. Some doors are slammed shut decisively—"No more of that!" Some are closed regretfully, softly—"It was good, but it is over." Departures entail arrivals somewhere else. Closing a door, leaving it behind, means opening onto new vistas and ventures, new possibilities, new incentives.”

“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”

“We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough”

“Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens us. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around—which puts the door behind us—and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.”

“When one door is closed, many more is open.”

“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.”

“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”