Closing your mouth is better than opening your ears.

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

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

Listening is a magnetic and strong thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

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

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

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.