A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies.

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.'

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

When you receive an education, you pass it on.

Japan and Hawaii already have strong economic, cultural and education ties, and we intend to build upon those ties and relationships as we look toward the future.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.