New Year Thoughts

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~Bill Vaughan

We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin