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.
不一定是你我的母亲，而是一个理想母亲的想象，一个永远义无反顾的爱你，不在乎你是否功成名就的人，不幸地，大部分世人都不怀有这种母爱，大部分世人决定要花费多少时间，给于多少爱，不一定是浪漫的那种爱，虽然那也包括在内，世人所愿意给我们的关爱、尊重，取决于我们的社会地位。
工程师是创造未来的人。他们是改变世界的人。
在政治中，没有什么是偶然发生的。如果发生了，你可以打赌那是计划好的。
Authentic being means accepting responsibility for making personal choices.
I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.
Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find yourself.