"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace within the storm." [Anonymous]

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst:

April 16

'Die when I may I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.'

- Henry David Thoreau