I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave! – Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Ar

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. – Orson Rega Card

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. – Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Discretion,” Proverbial Philosophy

Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes… – George Eliot, “Borne Along by the Tide,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860