God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference - Reinhold Niebuhr

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply - Stephen Covey

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do , than by the ones you did do - Mark Twain

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its original dimensions - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose - Viktor Frankl

A ship in the harbour is safe but that is not what ships are built for - John A. Shedd