Art is never finished, only abandoned.
艺术永远不会完成,只会被放弃。
Agricultural innovation must address both quantity and quality.
我不完美,但我一直在努力变得更好。
I'm not perfect, and I don't pretend to be.
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.