“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”

“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”

“Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.”

“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”

“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”

“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”

“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”

“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”