“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”

“I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.”

“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”

“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”

“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.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.”