June 21

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

June 22

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

June 23

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

June 24

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

June 25

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

June 26

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

June27

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

June 28

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

June 29

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

June 30

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

July 1

Labor is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. It is the source of all culture.

July 2

However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

July3

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

July 4

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

July 5

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

July 6

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.

July 7

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

July 8

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

July 9

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

July 10

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

July 11

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

July 12

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

July 13

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.

July 14

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

July 15

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

July 16

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

July 17

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

July 18

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

July 19

The best way of keeping fit is to keep a heart young.

July 20

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.