If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.