Every man is the son of his own works.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.