If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative..

To refuse to respond is in itself a response..

Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say….

Calumnies are answered best with silence..

Hear, see, and be silent..

I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" ….

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other w….

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated..

Your highest female grace is silence..

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from ….

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex..

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences..

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find alon….

Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its p….

Study is the child of silence and mystery..

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reas….

Only those people are really sane who have transcended the mind, who have gone beyond it into silence where no thoughts, no desires, no emotions, not….

The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of….

I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deep….