Work alone is noble.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

I got my own back.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.