“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.”

“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”

“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”

“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.”

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”

“I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.”

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.”

“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”