The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.

I believe in art as a form of education.

2000年10月29日，在南京大学捐资设立杨振宁奖学金时，杨振宁表示，虽然我父亲是大学教授，但因为通货膨胀，家里很穷，生活很艰苦，是奖学金帮我度过了难关。近几年多次在大陆访问，看到不少青年学生因家境困难而影响学业，感到很伤心，所以就有了这么个想法。杨振宁说

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

过去通过我们的基因向我们低语。

我喜欢把人们不认为是艺术的东西变成艺术。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.