“When I get stressed about stuff that’s out of my control,” Maneely counseled him, “I often remember an ancient poem. It’s, like, thousands of years old. It goes: 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.” “Written by a guy called Reinhold Niebuhr,” Peter said. “Except that he actually wrote ‘God grant.’ ” “Well, maybe, but it works just as well without.”
