It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
For us who understand life, figures are a matter ofindifference.
如果你足够幸运与众不同,永远不要改变。
Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.