"Silence is the best response to a..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'”

“I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.”

“The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.”

“Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.”

“Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

“Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”

“The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.”

“I was quiet but I was not blind.”

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.”