引用自海明威《老人与海》，张海迪在演讲中多次引用以表达坚韧精神

我相信梦想的力量和努力工作的重要性。

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

要真正伟大，必须与人民站在一起，而不是凌驾于他们之上。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

"Change is the essential process of all existence."