June 1st
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
June 2nd
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
- Edgar Degas
June 3rd
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
-W. Somerset Maugham
June 4th
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
- Orson Scott Card, ENDER'S GAME
June 5th
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
- Henry S. Haskins
June 6th
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
June 7th
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Samuel Ullman
June 8th
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-Alfred Nobel
June 9th
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
- Konrad Adenauer
June 10th
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
- Don Herrold
June 11th
One of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where --- but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
- Norton Juster, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
June 12th
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
- Charles Simic
June 13th
To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
- Robert J. Furey
June 14th
I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your heart. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
- Franklin Knight Lane
June 15th
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
-Albert Einstein
June 16th
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfeld
June 17th
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
- Harmon Killebrew
June 18th
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
- Oscar Wilde
June 19th
Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.
- Patricia Alexander, BOOK OF COMFORTS
June 20th
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
- David Sedaris, NAKED
June 21st
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 22nd
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
- William Van Horne
June 23rd
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
- Carolyn Kenmore
June 24th
Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense.
-Aldous Huxley
June 25th
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard, ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
June 26th
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Jane Austen, MANSFIELD PARK
June 27th
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
June 28th
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- Mark Twain
June 29th
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
- J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
June 30th
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
