性分不可使不足，故其取数也宜多：曰穷理，曰尽性，曰达天，曰入神，曰致广大，极高明；情欲不可使有余，故其取数也宜少：曰谨言，曰慎行，曰约己，曰清心，曰节饮食，寡嗜欲。
充分发挥人的天性禀赋，发挥得越多越好：运用天性去穷究物理，极尽智力，通达自然，思惟神妙，造就豁达的胸怀和高洁的品德；尽量压抑人的情感欲望，遏制到越少越好：管束自己去谨慎说话，持重办事，约束自身，心地高洁，还要节衣缩食并减少情欲和嗜好。
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
I think that the role of the mathematician is to discover these patterns and to explain them.
音乐是自我的反映，我们只是解释它，然后我们收到支票。
Stories are the way we understand the world, and the way we understand ourselves.
Our responsibility isn't just to produce food, but to nourish communities while honoring the resources that make it possible.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
今天很残酷，明天更残酷，后天很美好，但绝对大部分是死在明天晚上，所以每个人不要放弃今天。
In fisheries management, the easy decisions are often the wrong ones.