Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence.