The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

我不能继续，我会继续。

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

不要害怕放弃好的，去追求伟大的。

译文：经常在外人面前夸耀自己就是最大的短处，知道自己还有短处就是最大的长处。赏析：做人低调不张扬，才不会引起别人的嫉妒和报复。为人处世，不谈论自己的优点，不议论别人的短处。

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.