It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

力量并非来自身体的能力，而是来自不屈的意志。

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.