When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison?

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning you're dead.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Wise men when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet give themselves the benefit of the doubt and remain silent.

Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.

This love is silent.

We have treated our most serious adversaries such as Iran and North Korea in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing we have weakened not strengthened our bargaining position and our leadership.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Although your knowledge is weak and small you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

Hope will never be silent.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent literature dumb science crippled thought and speculation at a standstill.

It is better wither 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.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.