Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. -- Walt Whitman

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Listen to many, speak to a few.

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the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some floats flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. -- Walt Whitman

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitman

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