Work alone is noble.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

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.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Solitude is independence.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

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 people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Now I do whatever I want.

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

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.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

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

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

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

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.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

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.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

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

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

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.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.