A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

The essence of life is the power of love.

As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.