Silence is talk too.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

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

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

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

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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