The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

与其控制你的生活以避免意外，不如去迎接意外。

We are all of us, every day, engaged in the act of creating ourselves.

民主是一种机制，确保我们得到的治理不会比我们应得的更好。

追求纯粹的美是一种陷阱，是通往痛苦和悲伤的快车道。

I don't let anyone control me.

教师是太阳底下最光辉的职业。

任正非内部讲话稿

不可持续捕捞的真正成本远远超过我们表面上看到的。

骄傲的核心特征是敌意——对上帝的敌意和对同胞的敌意。

The self is not so much a substance as a process, and it is the continual task of education to change the process, to develop its activities, and to guide it into channels of efficiency.

我从不试图预测市场；我只是试图为它所做的任何事情做好准备。