Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.