Parting Thoughts

Here’s to a happy new year!

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
~ Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), German-French theologian, philosopher, physician and Nobel Peace Prize winner

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister

"If you get down and out, just get in the kitchen and bake a cake."
~ Jean Strickland (1932- ), American home baker quoted by Kim Severson in “Festiveness, Stacked Up Southern Style.” The New York Times, December 16, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/dining/16Bake.html?ref=dining

Reader contributions of Parting Thoughts are most welcome. Send them to Marne Einarson (mke3@cornell.edu)