You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. 你不能控制风向，但你可以调整风帆。
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. 快速决策是不安全的决策。 -- Sophocles 索福克勒斯
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. 对有些人来说，幸福就是兴高采烈;对其他人来说，这只是停滞不前。 -- Amy Lowell 艾米·洛威尔
Too much knowledge makes the head bald. 知识太多使人秃头。
Where two are fighting, a third one wins. 两个人在战斗，第三个人就赢了。
Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas. 和狗睡觉的人起跳蚤来。
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. 那些许诺我们在地球上有天堂的人只会带来地狱。 -- Karl Popper 波普尔
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. 专家总是重复同样的错误。 -- Walter Gropius 沃尔特·格罗皮乌斯
We live ignorant and die in errancy as we lived. 我们无知地活着，在错误中死去，就像我们活着一样。 -- Abul Ala Al Maarri 阿布勒·阿拉·马尔里
Better to go to bed supperless than run in debt. 与其负债累累，不如少吃晚饭上床睡觉。