对圣贤的道理教导别人很容易，自己实践却是不容易的事。对圣贤的道理开始奋斗很容易，但坚持到底却很难。圣贤的道理与实践相结合，行仁政必本与德性。后代则相反，学问与实践不能统一，不修持自己的德性，而只管治理别人。

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

只要是利益他人的事情，就要坚持做下去；只要是不利于别人的事情，就要马上停止不做。

The past is not dead; it is not even past.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and we study them to understand how things work.

世间没有什么能抵消春天的忧愁，不如对着苍天痛哭一场作罢。

当代艺术是现代性未完成事务得以解决的舞台。

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

萤火虫对群星说：「学者说你的光有一天会熄灭。」群星不回答它。