No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

Passion is more developed than discovered.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

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.

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.

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