Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

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.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Silence is also speech.

Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.