“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

“I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

“A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.”
Magna pars libertatis est bene moratus venter et contumeliae patiens.

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

“Too good is good for nothing.”

Sheri S. Tepper book Grass

“I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.”

Jason Statham (1967) English actor, film producer, martial artist and former diver

“Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

“A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.”

Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography