“There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.”

“All that we can gain in the west depends on the Entente — on the extent to which it may wish to squeeze Germany, [while in the east] there are doors that open and close, and it depends on who forces them open and how far.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

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

“She—and I—were of an age now where we spent too much time wondering how things might have gone had we made a few different choices.”

“It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other — for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended— the doors we had indiscreetly opened.”

“Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man's state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.”

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

“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open 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”