He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.