Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Memorize a simple strategy: Don't jump to speak, ask questions and listen, watch your anger thermometer and keep the temperature down.

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Listen more than you talk.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

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

A wise man once said nothing.

It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.

I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.

Well, say I promise I won't speak: but that does not bind me not to laugh at him!

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?