Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

在桂林学界迎会的演说，1922年1月22日

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and they who have so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but their own dispositions will waste their lives in fruitless efforts.

预测未来的最好方式就是创造未来。

道，真实可信，无为且没有形相，可以流传而不可以传授，可以得到却不能够看见；自己便是本根，没有天地之前就已经存在；鬼神天帝因它而化，天地因它而生；在太极之上而不为高，在六合之下而不为深，生在天地之先而不为亘久，长于上古之时却不为老。

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

In a globalized world, localized thinking is fatal.