"I learnt silence from the talkative..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.”

“Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.”

“Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.”

“It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.”

“Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.”

“The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.”

“I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.”