"The wisest men follow their own direction." -- Euripides --

"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank." -- Cicero --

"We must beware of any attempt to make hatred in any form the basis of action. Most emphatically each of us needs to stand up for his own rights." -- Theodore Roosevelt --

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." -- Epictetus --

Up from Slavery

Title: Up from Slavery

Author: Booker T. Washington

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Ages: 15 - 18+

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    The autobiography of Booker T. Washington is a startling portrait of one of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society. 

"Always look for the silver lining. I promise you, it's there." -- Unknown -- 

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.