I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.