Truth in a Nutshell

More to life than chatter

Do not indulge in idle, frivolous talk. If you are conscious of your spiritual poverty, devote every minute in becoming worthier to receive your rich heritage. Mere light-hearted gossip (frivolity) makes a mockery of your prayers before the Lord. It brands you a hypocrite and cuts at the very root of spirituality. Extravagant spending of precious time and energy is incompatible with your pleading for grace. Think more, and talk less.
_{Maharaj Jagat Singh, A Spiritual Bouquet}

From childhood, Thomas Edison, the American inventor who was to accomplish so much, was almost totally deaf. He could hear only the loudest noises and shouts, but this did not bother him. “I haven’t heard a bird sing since I was twelve,” he once said. “But rather than a handicap, my deafness probably has been beneficial.” He believed it drove him early to reading, enabled him to concentrate, and shut him off from small talk. People asked him why he didn’t invent a hearing aid. He always replied, “How much have you heard in the last twenty-four hours that you couldn’t do without?” He followed this up with: “A man who has to shout can never tell a lie.”
_{Charles Edison in The Book of Virtues by William J Bennett}