“Hope is such an important component to moving forward and getting past the difficult times.”

This planet that God created for us to live in is just so breathtakingly beautiful.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place.

Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.