“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”

“Men learned to speak in order to understand one another. Cultural languages have lost the ability to help men to advance beyond the most rudimentary level and attain understanding. It seems that the time has come to learn to be silent once again.”

“The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompaniment.”

“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”

“Racism… is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.”

“For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.”

“Good and few opportunities come openly, better and more opportunities accompany challenges while the best and most opportunities come in the form of challenges.”

“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”