I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

I really love peace and quiet.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Silence can be very effective, and it gives the music space to breathe.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.