If…

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs …
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you …
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting …
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim …
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it …

Rudyard Kipling – Englisch writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 (1865-1936), from his poem “If” (1895), published first in “Rewards and Fairies” (1910)