“As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”

“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”

“To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.”

“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”

“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”

“What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.”

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”