“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”

“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.”

“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.”

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”

“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.”

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”

“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.”

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”