People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit. Maynard James Keenan, in the song “Schism”, by Tool

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. Will Rodgers

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world....

Too much sanity may be madness – and the maddest of all – to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these. Prophet Muhammad, Bukhari

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him. Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms. Prophet Muhammad, Muslim