Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.