We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.