These quotes are those that I have collected from friends, acquaintances, or other sources.  I have found these quotes funny, influential, or just worth keeping.

  This is one of my favorite quotes and has a special history to me.  Back in 1996, one of my fellow classmates, Makamae Masuda, was in the hospital, diagnosed with cancer in his arm.  He wasn't doing to well at one point and a card was signed by all the classmates.  I included the above quote.  He has since recovered and is currently attending a college in Northern California.  I also shared this quote with my swim team mates.  That year, both the girls and guys surged and took the State Championship, overthrowing the top-ranked Punahou teams, which held a 30+ year reign on the championship crown.

    When my father retired from the military, he used this quote:

"The difficult we can do; the impossible... will take a little longer" -- Unknown

"What the dilly yo it's awfully quiet out there." -- Peter Cain, in response to a lack of e-mail activity in his e-mail account

"Can you feel it?"  -- Nick Lezak feeling the awesome-ness of AP US History

"Augh!" -- the Pack

"Discipline is what governs you when no one is watching."  -- Dr. Val Iwashita, Headmaster of Iolani School

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"People say gun-control laws are inconvenient.  It's much less inconvenient than burying my son.  That was inconvenient."
    -- Nadin Onodera, whose 24-year-old son was murdered in their home in 1993; from Honolulu Star Bulletin, 05 January 2000, page A-14.

"While I was out of town, burglars broke into my house, but they didn't take anything.  It kinda hurt my feelings." -- Unknown (from an joke e-mail list)

"Enamel is worth more than gold" -- from a poster in a dental office

"Do not follow where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." -- Unknown

"If you do what you've always done, then you always get what you always get." -- Proverb

"Forgive your enemies -- Nothing annoys them more." -- Unknown Army Chaplain

"An oyster makes a pearl out of its irritation.  What do you do with yours?" -- Unknown Army Chaplain

"No rain, no rainbows." -- from a t-shirt in Waikiki

"I prefer what was to what now is -- 'cause what was, wasn't what now isn't." -- Wilson (Ziggy cartoon)

"If you don't stand up to something, then you fall to everything" -- from poster in Mr. Totero's class at Iolani School

"When all else fails, try following directions." -- from poster in Mr. Takayesu's math class at Iolani School

"Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." -- Jim Fox

"Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?"

"I misplaced my dictionary. Now I'm at a loss for words."

Woman's Quote: "Men are like fine wine.  They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something that you'd like to have dinner with."

Men's Counter-Quote: "Women are like fine wine.  They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then turn full-bodied with age until they go all sour and vinegary and give you a headache."

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." -- Anne Frank

"Darkness is an essential step in true enlightenment." -- Clayton Kennedy