Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.