“Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.”

“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”

“The light microscope opened the first gate to microcosm. The electron microscope opened the second gate to microcosm. What will we find opening the third gate?”

“How easily people fall into hatred. How easily people throw hoaxes and lies. Because they know that nowadays people are also easily instigated, manipulated and agitated.”

“Somewhere far above has a new day risen
Way beyond the searchlight comes alive…
Then on a bright day at North Point
The gate was open wide
They chanced to look at what was inside…”

“Fire opens the gates of victory.”

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

“Weird doors open. People fall into things.”

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates”