What is your personal mission statement?

Answer 1

To do good and be useful.

Answer 2

The most simple statement of it has been done: "liberty and justice for all." After that the details:

Literacy is very important to me, and I see several avenues here. One is the stimulation of young minds to want to read. The hero of the modern age in that regard is J. K. Rowling.

Another is overcoming adult illiteracy. The hero of that may also be Rowling, in that any really interesting book nominally for children, with a sufficiently simple vocabulary and a complex enough story to engage an adult's interest, is useful there.

The third is bilingual education, both for children and adults. I live in central California, and bilingual means Spanish and English. But in other areas, the same techniques would probably work. I have seen children's books where everything was written in three languages -- English, Spanish and French -- that would be great from Monterey to Montreal. That was with the Strawberry Shortcake theme, but I am sure there are others. I want to gather them into my bookstore, along with editions of good literature in both Spanish and English that I can display side-by-side. I would make it a point to include those that were originally Spanish and translated into English as well as the other way around.

So I guess you could say I consider liberty the goal and literacy the tool.

Answer 3

Mine would have to be, "What man is a man who does not make the world better?". I know I stole it off the movie Kingdom of Heaven, but that does not make it any less true.

Answer 4

"As far as it is up to me, I will live in peace with all life. I will leave each place, better than I found it. I will choose to be present and in the moment, each moment I have here, and will seek to always add value. "

Answer 5

What others think of me is none of my business!