[DuncanWaring]

One more, from Admiral James Bond Stockdale, who spent over seven years checked-in at the Hanoi Hilton:

"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

[4everontheRight]

Facts are stubborn things ..aren’t they?