A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Aloha is free.

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

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

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

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

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.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.