'Proper work' usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be number 1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
We work to stop thinking about sex and worrying about death.
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.