即使官场得意，步步高升，也要保持廉洁奉公的作风；即使退位之后，也要坚守节操，有始有终。

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The best advice I ever received was to stay true to myself and never compromise my integrity.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

有人问我什么是幸福，我回答说：不奢求非必需之物。