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• Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change
  he courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off....
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the weaponry to make the difference.
• God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
• God grant me the senility to accept the things I cannot change, The frustration to try to change things I cannot affect, and the wisdom to tell the difference.
• 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, The Serenity Prayer (1934)...
• I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• God grant me the serenity to fix the bugs I find, and to call the rest features.
• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change
  what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. -- G. C. Lichtenberg...
• In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories.
  But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do...