Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it. (E. F. Schumacher)

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

E. F. Schumacher

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