“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.”

“It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.”

“So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.”

“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”

“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”

“It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.”

“This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.”

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”

“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”