“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.

A wanderer who found beauty in a quiet jungle and went into a mysterious paradise in search of a treasure of silence in which the whole universe hides.

You’re the secret whisper of the mountain. The fresh water stream that babbles down the majestic moonlit reverie. You’re the silent hush of screaming stars that ache my heart with the taste of magic.

The silence was broken with the music of your pain, but with every note i could see a part of you healing.

She is a voice that can never be silenced, even if her echoes are transformed from blood and ink to rare gems.

The sound of silence has the ability to teach the loudest lessons.

Sometimes silence is the only answer.

How you make use of silence and uniqueness is the key to your rareness.

The more I spoke of it, the faster it slipped away from me.