当我们仅用板英尺来衡量森林的成功时，我们就只见树木不见森林了。
郦波在讲座中引用马克·吐温的话并加以阐释
历史不是发生过的事，历史只是历史学家告诉我们的故事。
Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
In chemicals, our greatest challenge is also our greatest opportunity: meeting global needs while protecting the planet.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
I'm not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.
——2003年10月13日在联合国国际电信联盟(ITU)大会上发言