“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”

“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.”

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

“I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.”

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”

“There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.”

“So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.”

“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”