“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.”

“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”

“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”

“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.”

“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.”

“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”

“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”