2. “Listen to silence. It has so much to say.” – Rumi
3. “Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of answers.” – Anonymous
4. “True silence is the rest of the mind. It is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” – William Penn
5. “The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.” – Naval Ravikant
6. “Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
8. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt and remain silent.” – Napoleon Hill
9. “Through the portals of silence, the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
10. “When you become aware of silence, immediately, there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.” – Eckhart Tolle
11. “The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
12. “I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” – Chaim Potok
13. “Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than the silence.” – Buddha
14. “Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.” – Plutarch
15. “Silence is a source of great strength.” – Lao Tzu
16. “Silence is a habit that is hard-earned but good for the soul.” – Anonymous
17. “Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth.” – Maxime Lagacé
18. “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein
19. “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?” – Lawrence Durrell
20. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon
21. “If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet, maybe we could understand something.” – Federico Fellini
22. “Life’s deepest feelings are often expressed in silence.” – Anonymous
23. “Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the Eternal One.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “Silence gives us space to process our experiences and soak in our surroundings.” – Cati Vanden Breul
25. “Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another or looking lovingly at a child or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
26. “Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not amid joy.” – Felicia Hemans
27. “The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.” – Simon Van Booy
28. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller
29. “Being silent is a good practice. Oftentimes, we just say what is on our minds without thought. To limit your words and only speak them when necessary is powerful.” – Anonymous
30. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.” – Rumi
31. “Within each of us, there is silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.” – Gunilla Norris
32. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” – Blaise Pascal
33. “In the silence behind, what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long.” – Andreas Fransson
34. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass, grows in silence. See the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa
35. “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” – Nicholas Sparks
36. “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” – Pablo Picasso
37. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.” – Carl Jung
38. “How much better is silence, the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary seabird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” – Virginia Woolf
39. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
40. “You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don’t say.” – Anonymous
41. “Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.” – Khaled Hosseini
42. “Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons, you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet, Rumi, wrote, ‘Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.'” – Deepak Chopra
43. “Silence is refreshment for the soul.” – Wynonna Judd
44. “Silence doesn’t always equate to suffering. There are times when one needs silence in order to listen to the needs of their souls.” – Anonymous
45. “Contentment can be found in silence when the soul and heart are one.” – Anonymous
46. “A happy life must be, to a great extent, a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” –
47. “Focus your attention on the quality of your words and not the quantity because few sensible talks attract millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
48. “Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.” – Andrea Bocelli
49. “Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths. It is dark and mysterious in the waters of grace. Yet, in the silent darkness, we are given new eyes. In the heart of the divine, we can see more clearly who we are. We are renewed and cleansed in this river of silence. There are those among you who fear the great silence. It is a foreign land to you. Sometimes, it is good to leap into the unknown. Practice leaping.” – Macrina Wiederkehr
50. “I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion. I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.” – Henry Miller
51. “There are in life a few moments so beautiful that even words are a sort of profanity.” – Diana Palmer
52. “It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.” – Dejan Stojanovic
53. “Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?” – Marcel Marceau
54. “Meditation is the art of listening to your soul. To breathe in good intentions and exhale the worries of the day, to sit in silence is to attain peace.” – Anonymous
55. “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” – Leonora Carrington
56. “There is a time in the day just before the sun rises that is so silent, all you can hear is the creation of the universe.” – Anonymous
57. “Nowadays, silence is looked on as odd, and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now, tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.” –
58. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” – William S. Burroughs
59. “I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there.” – Karen Armstrong
60. “The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.” – Baruch Spinoza
61. “To hear, one must be silent.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
62. “Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.” – George Henry Lewes
63. “One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.” – Virginia Woolf
64. “Work hard in silence. Let your success make the noise.” –
65. “All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose, but when it is necessary, speak, and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
66. “If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.” – Mother Teresa
67. “A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.” – Pythagoras
68. “Keep silent for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.” – Epictetus
69. “I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue. He approaches nearest to gods who know how to be silent, even though he is in the right.” – Cato the Elder
70. “The things that we understand create silence. The things that we do not create emotion.” – Kapil Gupta
71. “Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds without speech fly freely about.” – Sakya Pandita
72. “Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.” – Augustus Hare
73. “Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.” – Wayne Dyer
74. “Silence can often be more disturbing than noise. It reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.” – José Rodrigues Miguéis
75. “Sometimes, it’s best to stay quiet. The silence can speak volumes without ever saying a word.” – Anonymous
76. “Sound is our mind, silence is our being.” –
77. “Few people can endure silence for long. They must have some expression outside themselves that corresponds to the unrest of the spirit.” – John Daniel Barry
78. “Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.” – Susan Cain
79. “Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.” – Thomas Raymond Kelly
80. “The hardest and most important battle you’ll deliver is when you’ll be alone. Will you follow the crowds or will you follow that little voice inside yourself?” – Maxime Lagacé
81. “Choose silence of all virtues, for, by it, you hear other men’s imperfections and conceal your own.” – George Bernard Shaw
82. “Where I am, I don’t know. I’ll never know. In the silence you don’t know, you must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” – Samuel Beckett
83. “Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
84. “All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj
85. “A man is known by the silence he keeps.” – Oliver Herford
86. “Silence is a gift. Learn to value its essence.” – Anonymous
87. “Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.” – William Shakespeare
88. “Since long, I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.” – Aeschylus
89. “In silence, there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” – Rumi
90. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness, imperfection, and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.” –
91. “I often regret that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.” – Publilius Syrus
92. “The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed, the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures whose charms were broken if revealed.” – Charlotte Bronte
93. “Saying nothing sometimes says the most.” – Emily Dickinson
94. “When you have nothing to say, say nothing.” – Charles Caleb Colton
95. “I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.” – Albert Einstein
96. “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.” – Charles de Gaulle
97. “Silence is sometimes the best answer.” – Dalai Lama
98. “A silent man is easily reputed wise.” – Frederick William Robertson
99. “If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.” – Emily Bronte
100. “Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.” – Muhammad Ali
101. “Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” – Mahatma Gandhi
102. “Great souls suffer in silence.” – Friedrich Schiller
103. “There are things that are too great to be said that only silence can truly capture the moment.” – Anonymous
104. “Real action is in silent moments.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
105. “Do not underestimate the of a quiet man.” – Iain Duncan Smith
106. “No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong, do they put their heads above the ground.” – Annie Besant
107. “Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” – Max Ehrmann
108. “There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden, or even your bathtub.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
109. “Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.” – Patanjali
110. “The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.” – Arabian Proverb
111. “In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.” – Johannes Tauler
112. “Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.” – Ezra Taft Benson
113. “The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes.” – Rick Rubin
114. “I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are, for the most part, more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” – Henry David Thoreau
115. “Quiet and silence are a form of power. Thoughtful and wise people are not talkative people.” – Chia Thye Poh
116. “Once you’ve matured, you realize silence is more powerful than proving a point.” – Anonymous
117. “Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption but also a disruption of thought.” –
118. “Silence is a great peacemaker.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
119. “We’ve known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries. It’s only recently that we’ve forgotten it.” – Susan Cain
120. “Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.” – German Proverb
121. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” – Leonardo da Vinci
122. “Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.” – Euripides
123. “The music is not in the notes but in the silence between.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
124. “Silence speaks when words can’t.” – Anonymous
125. “Silence is argument carried out by other means.” –
126. “Silence is better than unmeaning words.” – Pythagoras
127. “Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.” – Bob Dylan
128. “Silence says a lot more than you think.” – Anonymous
129. “Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.” – Phyllis McGinley
130. “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence.” – Paul Simon
131. “Silence is more eloquent than words.” – Thomas Carlyle
132. “It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.” – Francis Beaumont
133. “Silence is so freaking loud.” – Sarah Dessen
134. “The most profound statements are often said in silence.” – Lynn Johnston
135. “Silence is the mother of truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
136. “Silence is interesting. It can show confusion, indifference, and sadness. But it can also show determination, confidence, and caring.” – Maxime Lagacé
137. “Inner silence is the mother of all talents.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
138. “Hope will never be silent.” – Harvey Milk
139. “Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.” – Tom Ford
140. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
141. “You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths.” – Alison McGhee
142. “There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.” – George Steiner
143. “Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak.” – Anonymous
144. “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.” – Thomas Carlyle
145. “What’s quiet is more powerful than you think.” – Maxime Lagacé
146. “Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.” – Anonymous
147. “Speech is of time. Silence is of eternity.” – Thomas Carlyle
148. “I have found that one cannot win the war of words. So I don’t engage in one, to begin with. I have renounced the need to be seen as right, intelligent, or wise. I have seen the futility of verbal battles. Either one seeks to understand or score points. The latter isn’t worth it.” – The Ancient Sage
149. “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.” – Robert Service
150. “‘I don’t think.’ ‘Then you shouldn’t talk.'” –
151. “I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.” – Soren Kierkegaard
152. “The quiet mind is richer than a crown.” – Robert Greene
153. “The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.” – Clarice Lispector
154. “The good and the wise lead quiet lives.” – Euripides
155. “Silence is an empty space. Space is the home of the awakened mind.” – Buddha
156. “To sit and watch as life passes by is an art lost in time. Only available to the very young and the very old, this gift is what makes the elderly and very young children wise.” – Anonymous
157. “You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.” – Sathya Sai Baba
158. “Thoughts work in silence, so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence.” – Thomas Carlyle
159. “Silence allows you to observe the world in totality.” – Anonymous
160. “I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.” – Albert Camus
161. “Silence is the language of God. It is also the language of the heart.” – Sivananda Saraswati
162. “Silence, healing.” – Heraclitus
163. “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” – Confucius
164. “Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes, the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.” – Mandy Hale
165. “The silence is not suppression. Instead, it is all there is.” – Annie Dillard
166. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
167. “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.” – Nadezhda Mandelstam
168. “I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.” –
169. “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” – Abraham Lincoln
170. “Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry van Dyke
171. “Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde
172. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
173. “As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.” – Benjamin Franklin
174. “Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse, and deprivation cannot be expected to find a voice in a whisper.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
175. “When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
176. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood. It may be equally outraged by silence.” – Henri-Frederic Amiel
177. “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel
178. “When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.” – Audre Lorde
179. “It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.” – Victor Hugo
180. “Lying is done with words and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich
181. “When I pronounce the word ‘future,’ the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word ‘silence,’ I destroy it.” – Wisława Szymborska
182. “Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.” – Charles Simic
183. “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” – Blaise Pascal
184. “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” – Elbert Hubbard
185. “The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.” – Haruki Murakami
186. “It is always assumed by the empty-headed who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.” – Honoré de Balzac
187. “I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet, through the silence, something throbs and gleams.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
188. “Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.” – Julius Lester
189. “Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it. Without the alternation of sound and silence, there would be no rhythm.” – Thomas Merton
190. “I go silent, so I can write. When my tongue is wagging, my fingers are silent.” – Sonia Rumzi
191. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
192. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – Clive Staples Lewis
193. “Men of few words are the best men.” – William Shakespeare
194. “He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.” – Decimius Magnus Ausonius
195. “It is better either to be silent or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word, and do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.” – Pythagoras
196. “The truth hurts, but silence kills.” – Mark Twain
197. “When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence.” – Anthony de Mello
198. “Sometimes, you don’t have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.” – Disha Patani
199. “When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.” – Elizabeth Eulberg
200. “In human intercourse, the tragedy begins not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” – Henry David Thoreau
201. “If you’re asked, what is the silence? Respond, it is the first stone of the wisdom’s temple.” – Pythagoras
202. “He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.” – Michel de Montaigne
203. “Wise people are not always silent, but they know when to be.” – Anonymous
204. “The more you know, the less you need to say.” – Jim Rohn
205. “A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” – Shannon L. Alder
206. “Silence is of different kinds and breathes different meanings.” – Charlotte Brontë
207. “A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials. It reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.” – Emile M. Cioran
208. “Silence is the wit of fools.” – Anatole France
209. “He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.” – Washington Irving
210. “Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.” – Jonathan Ogden Armour
211. “Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.” – Charles Caleb Colton
212. “Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
213. “Silence is the eternal duty of man.” – Thomas Carlyle
214. “A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.” – Dante Alighieri
215. “One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.” – Sarah Orne Jewett
216. “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.” – Pythagoras
217. “Silence is also a conversation.” – Ramana Maharshi
218. “I was quiet, but I was not blind.” – Jane Austen
219. “A sage thing is timely silence and better than any speech.” – Plutarch
220. “The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.” – Eckhart Tolle
221. “Silence is safer than speech.” – Epictetus
222. “Getting no message is also a message.” – Anonymous
223. “Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older.” – Emil Cioran
224. “I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” – Georg Trakl
225. “The wiser you become, the more comfortable you are with silence.” – Maxime Lagacé
226. “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
227. “It is silence that most need an answering. When I can no longer speak, hear me.” – Jeanette Winterson
228. “For now, she need not think of anybody. She could be herself by herself, and that was what now she often felt the need of, to think. Well, not even to think. To be silent, to be alone.” – Virginia Woolf
229. “Soon, silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.” – Jean Arp
230. “Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.” – Daphne du Maurier
231. “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. Yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” – Khalil Gibran
232. “Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
233. “Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.” – Mark Helprin
234. “The silence, often of pure innocence, persuades where speaking fails.” – William Shakespeare
235. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams
236. “When you build in silence, they don’t know what to attack.” – Anonymous
237. “Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.” – Josh Billings
238. “Silence is the speech of love, the music of the spheres above.” – Richard Henry Stoddard
239. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” – Benjamin Franklin
