I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. -- Nadia Giosia

Some suggestions for you :

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

Union gives strength.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.