Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It's not for the faint of heart.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide.

I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.