夫汤武革命，孔子且艳称之，彼不过帝王革命、英雄革命；而我则为人民革命、平民革命，乃前不及见、后不再来之神圣事业。先我而生者，既不及见，后我而生者，亦必深自恨晚，且不知若何羡慕。故今日之我，其生也，为革命而生我；其死也，为革命而死我，死得其所，未有善于此时者！
〈军人精神教育〉，在桂林对滇赣粤军的演说，1921年12月10日
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
最平凡的生活可以拥有非凡的故事。
I’ve had people look down on me and put me down because I didn’t look like them—but that didn’t stop me.