"Everything is a learning process: any time you fall down, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time."

Agricultural R&D should be close to actual needs and not divorced from the production front.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

真正的企业家精神在于不断挑战现状，寻找新的机会。

市场比政府更能高效地分配资源，但它并非完美无缺。

Sustainability is not just a responsibility, but also an opportunity for innovation.

最好的想法往往来自意想不到的地方。