Listening is the best way to learn.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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

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

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

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

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

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