Common sense tells us that performance comes and goes, but costs go on forever.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
天要使一个人遭祸,必先给他一点小小的好处使他轻信;天要使一个人受福,必先给他一点小小的祸患使他有所警惕。