诚宜开张圣听，以光先帝遗德，恢弘志士之气，不宜妄自菲薄，引喻失义，以塞忠谏之路也。
译文：陛下你实在应该广泛地听取别人的意见，来发扬光大先帝遗留的美德，振奋有远大志向的人的志气，不应过分看轻自己，援引不恰当的譬喻，以至于堵塞忠言进谏的道路。
People lie for all kinds of reasons, but mostly they lie because the truth is too hard.
研究人员最重要的品质是坚持。
"The dead are never truly gone, they live on in the stories we tell about them."
过去总是紧张的，未来是完美的。
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
The writer’s duty is to tell the terrible truth, and it is the reader’s duty to learn from it.