An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

We doctors know a hopeless case if—listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.