Sakyamuni means the silent one or the sage (muni) of the Sakya clan. Though he is the founder of a widely taught world religion, the ultimate core of his doctrine remains concealed, necessarily, in silence.

He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad.

At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.