“Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.”

“They walked along in silence, that silence just before parting where everything has been left unsaid and it is too late now to say it. Fern felt as if her stomach was full of words, words burning to be spoken, but her lips refused to unclose and the words remained inside her, seething, like a bad case of indigestion. ”

“Feelings need not be shown to be felt. Words need not be spoken to understand. Silence, is sometimes the most eloquent lesson.”

“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”

“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.”

“Wise man can make people hearmore lessons than words spoken.”