Urban planning; Buddhist Proverb ("If you can fix it...")

[Mullins, Bill]

> Mullins, Bill wrote:
> > Maybe he is misquoting the "Native American" serenity prayer:
> >
> > Great Spirit, grant me the strength to change what I can, the the
> > serenity to accept what I can't change, and the wisdom to know the
> > difference.  (and that's a bad quote from memory).
>
> Hmm. There may be a Native American prayer of that sort, but
> what you've quoted sounds more like a prayer composed by the
> theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "O God, give us serenity to
> accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should
> be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
>

That's what I get for writing without looking it up first.  But I'm
pretty sure that I've seen Niebuhr's prayer on inspirational posters,
etc., cited as an Indian prayer.