If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. 

~ Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013) 

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. 

~ Ingrid Newkirk, animal rights activist (b. 11 Jul 1949) 

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 

~ Arthur Helps, writer (10 Jul 1813-1875) 

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. 

~ Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988) 

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. 

~ Peter Singer, philosopher, professor of bioethics (b. 6 Jul 1946) 

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? 

~ Jean Cocteau, author, and painter (5 Jul 1889-1963) 

Shadow owes its birth to light. 

~ John Gay, poet and dramatist (30 Jun 1685-1732) 

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (29 Jun 1900-1944) 

The highest result of education is tolerance. 

~ Helen Keller, author, and lecturer (27 Jun 1880-1968) 

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. 

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (22 Jun 1906-2001) 

Life has no meaning a c… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. 

~ Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 19 Jun 1947) 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 

~ Winston Churchill

When you have full belief in yourself and the need to make things happen, that’s the powerful force behind being successful. 

~ Julia Landauer,  NASCAR Driver, Entrepreneur

If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. 

~ Conan O'Brien, Talk Show Host, & Comedian

Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work. 

~ Daya, Musician

If you make a mistake, own it and move quickly to fix it. 
~ Tooey Courtemanche, Founder of Procore Technologies

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. 

~ Maya Angelou, Writer and Activist