New Year's Toasts

New Year's toasts are the traditional way to ring in the new year. What's in your glass is not important -- it's the toast that counts. Can't think of anything profound to say as the clock winds down to the new year? Borrow some words from the professionals.

Here we look to writers, celebrities and other notables for inspirational New Year's toasts.

• 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
  
  
• Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey
  
  
• May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! - Joey Adams
  
  
• I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser. - Robert Paul
  
  
• From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

Happy New Year!