自我不是被发现的东西，而是被创造的现实。

——二个叔父孙学成、孙观成早年均因为贫穷必须远赴他乡做工谋生，在孙出生前后因病去世，孙看到清朝绩弱不振，受到外国强敌欺侮，增加自己从事反清革命的动机

逃避问题的最好方法是解决它。

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.

In such condition there is no place for industry...and which is worst of all， continual fear and danger of violent death.