The wise are known for their few words.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature. JAMES 3:2 According to this Scripture, the one thing proving our level of spiritual maturity isn't how religious we are—whether we can quote Scripture, or the good works we do—it is the words from our mouths.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.