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"The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?" »Eknath Easwaran
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"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 emotional appeal." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad" »Alan Marshall Beck
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"If you can't find the key to success, pick the lock." »Unknown
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"Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart." »Anthony D'Angelo
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"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." »Paul Valery
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"To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom." »Sorin Cerin
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"... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer." »Sun System & Network Admin manual
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"The future is the past returning through another gate." »Arnold Glasgow
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate." »Arthur Wing Pinero
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"Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, For he that knows thy purpose best prevents." »Randolph
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"The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate." »Marcus Terentius Varro
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"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire." »Salvador Dali
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"I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here." »Eric Pio
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul." »William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus"
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"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness." »Hannah More
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"If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river." »Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head." »Jean Cocteau
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"It's cabin fever season people, that time of year when four walls feel like they're going to come in here and choke the spirit right out of you. Time to lock away those firearms and hang tough. No way through it except to do it." »Jeff Melvoin
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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'" »Minnie Haskins
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"Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust." »Mahabharata
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." »C. S. Lewis
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"Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason." »CaddyShack
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