I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

I had been used to chatter. To sit quietly did not come easy. However, with time and patience, I was learning.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said. You talk without words. We are always talking without words. Well, what good are words, then? Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Never miss a chance to shut up.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.