You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. - J'ai un début de vieillesse ...)

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.

Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.

A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with.

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.