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.

——在广东和朋友谈自己的主张，1921年

你给予的越多，得到的回报就越多。

你越低，你的思想就越想高飞。

Sustainable development requires balancing economic growth with ecological protection.

我不得不提醒自己，有些鸟是不能关在笼子里的，他们的羽毛太漂亮了，当他们飞走的时候，你会觉得把他们关起来是种罪恶，但是，他们不在了你会感到寂寞，可是我只是想我的朋友了。

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.