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

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

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

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.

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

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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