要得富贵福泽，天主张，由不得我；要做贤人君子，我主张，由不得天。
想要得富贵福泽，这要看天意，由不得自己；要想成为贤人君子，主要靠自己，由不得天意。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
You have to be willing to take risks, and if you fail, you have to be willing to get up and try again.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.