Isn’t it strange that princes and kings

And clowns that caper in sawdust rings

And common folk like you and me

Are builders of eternity?

Each is given a book of rules,

A mass of clay and a set of tools;

And each will make ere life hath flown,

A stumbling block or a stepping stone.

— Anonymous grade school teacher

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein

via Albert Einstein Quotes – BrainyQuote.

“The quality of mercy is not strain’d.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

William Shakespeare, “Merchant of Venice” (IV, I, 184-186)