I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

Wherever you go, God be with you.

Ive seen it all, done it all, known it all.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

To enhance and expand your vision, get an education.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.