You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

——回答清华学生“国民党施行的，是否俄国的主义？”，1924年2月9日

多样性不仅仅是一种可有可无的东西，对于任何希望长期成功的组织来说，它都是必不可少的。

任何政治制度的成功都取决于其提供繁荣和正义的能力。