To lose a language is to lose a way of seeing the world.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

"We live in a world where walls have ears and the ground has eyes."

我不是一个轻易放弃的女孩。我会为我想要的而奋斗。

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.

——温铁军2002年6月温铁军在清华大学的一次讲座

译文：要成就大事，不应该去和众人谋划。