Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The second exercise is a favorite of Yogi Raman's. He used to go an entire day without speaking, except in response to a direct question." "Kind of like a vow of silence?" "Actually that's exactly what it was, John. The Tibetan monks who popularized this practice believed that to hold one's tongue for an extended period of time would have the effect of enhancing one's discipline.

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems.

The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.