“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

“I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.”

“Change is such hard work.”

“God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.”

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”

“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.”

“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”

“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”

“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”

“The days you work are the best days.”

“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”

“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.”

“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”