God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other..

Reinhold Niebuhr

A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere..

W. H. Auden

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it..

Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children..

Mark Twain