Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.