“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” The Serenity Prayer, uncertain attribution, but generally Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual (1892 – 1971)

“Lord, grant me the strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.” Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes (1985 – 1995)