“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“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.”

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

“In the act of simply being with another culture there comes the realization of a need for balance, the understanding that there are times when it is better to listen than to ask, better the feel than to think, more appropriate to stay with a silence than to seek answers in speech.”

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

“Free speech – proper, full-blooded free speech – is the lifeblood of any progressive politics and of any progressive transformation of society. If we treasure the one, we must treasure the other.”

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

“He or silence keeps or speaks in season.”

“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

“Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.”