Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.