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.

生活是10%发生在你身上的事和90%你如何应对它。

I go where I love and where I am loved.

The poem is an act of the mind, not a transcription of the world.

La verdadera patria del hombre es la infancia.