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

“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.”

“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”

“I say to those liberals hell-bent on restricting speech: rather than trying to silence voices and viewpoints you disagree with, join the debate.”

“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.”

“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

“All that evil needs to triumph is the silence of good men.”

“The talk is in your world. In mine – there is eternal silence. My silence sings, my emptiness is full. I lack nothing. You cannot know my world until you are there.”