"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."

"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change."

"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."

"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."

"My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable."

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."