You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

对来自学生的批评应该本着友好的精神来接受，学习材料的积累不应该扼杀学生的独立性。

【译文】要像瓶口那样不轻易开口，要像城防那样时时戒备。宁愿让别人辜负我，决不让自己辜负别人。做事要三思而后行，首先不要违背自己的良心。活着的老虎尚可以靠近，心地恶毒的人千万不能亲近。在你跟前说别人坏话的人，就是制造是非的小人。

Leadership is about making tough decisions, not just popular ones.

——1998年3月4日接受外界采访

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.