The best answer to anger is silence.

If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

These are the three things, it is commonly said, that mark a good preacher; first, that he take his place; secondly, that he open his mouth and say something; thirdly, that he know when to stop.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was from my grandmother, who said, "A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it's a jar of quarters." The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: "You don't have to tell everything you know.

Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent.