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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

I’ll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

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