“Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”

“I never said nothing…"
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!”

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”

“Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”

“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”

“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.”

“Never say love is "like" anything… It isn't.”

“People who take things too literally don't get much of anything from my teaching. By never saying anything I mean, I say a great deal. I never mean anything I say under oath. I never mean exactly what I say. Not even this. You have to read between the words.”

“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”

“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”