I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

~ Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

failure, happiness, honesty, self-respect, success, wisdom — November 5, 2008

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

~ Dr. Seuss

confidence, empowerment, happiness, honesty, individuality, self-respect, wisdom — October 20, 2008