If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do. -- Michael Phelps, born June 30, 1985

I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. – Robert Ballard, born June 30, 1942

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born June 29, 1900

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born June 28, 1712

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller, born June 27, 1880

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck, born June 25, 1892

Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell), born June 25, 1903

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. – Henry Ward Beecher, born June 24, 1813

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. – Alfred Kinsey, born June 23, 1894

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. – Kris Kristofferson, born June 22, 1936

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. – Jean-Paul Sartre, born June 21, 1905

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. – Errol Flynn, born June 20, 1909

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ― Blaise Pascal, born June 19, 1623

I don't work at being ordinary. – Paul McCartney, born June 18, 1942

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. – Igor Stravinsky, born June 17, 1882

Another fine mess you've gotten me into. – Stan Laurel, born June 16, 1890

Never knowing my right foot from my left / My hat from my glove / I'm too misty and too much in love – Erroll Garner, born June 15, 1921 (“Misty”)

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. – Che Guevara, born June 14, 1928

We must laugh and we must sing, / We are blest by everything, / Everything we look upon is blest. – W.B. Yeats, born June 13, 1865

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank, born June 12, 1929

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. – Richard Strauss, born June 11, 1864

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland, born June 10, 1922

I get no kick from champagne. / Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all – Cole Porter, born June 9, 1891

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. ― Frank Lloyd Wright, born June 8, 1867

Between the failure and the masterpiece, the distance is one millimeter. – Paul Gauguin, born June 7, 1848

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ― Thomas Mann, born June 6, 1875 (The Magic Mountain)

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. – Rosalind Russell, born June 4, 1907 (“Auntie Mame”)

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. – Allen Ginsberg, born June 3, 1926

Till the Spinner of the Years / Said "Now!" And each one hears, / And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. – Thomas Hardy, born June 2, 1840 (“The Convergence of the Twain”)

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. ― Marilyn Monroe, born June 1, 1926