A Happy new year to you and Yours!

A new year brings new Beginnings

“You are growing when you get to the point where you can do your best, seen or unseen.”

“If you have failed thus far to plan out how you are going to spend your time, you are making a mistake and you will find that kind of a mistake largely contributing to your failure in life. Do not go out into the world to hit or miss on some chance, but plan now.”

“No man shall drag me down by making me hate him.”

-- Booker T. Washington

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

We are the protagonists and authors of our own drama.

It is up to us; there is no one left to blame.

Neither the "system," not our leaders, nor our parents.

We can't go out and hang the first amoeba."

- Rebecca McClen Novick

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

- Ecclesiates 9:10.