If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.

If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Silence is the most powerful scream.

Silence is the most powerful scream.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of read more

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; read more

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, read more

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.