In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

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.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

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 like to work.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

When you say, ‚I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,‘ people always say, ‚Oh, really?‘ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‚A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.‘

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

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.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

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

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.