The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up—it means you trust them even when they do screw up.
The present is always changing, but the past is fixed.
你连自己都管不好,怎么能治理国家的正事呢? 
——〈在北京基督教等六教会欢迎会的演说〉,1912年9月5日