I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m a big shoe girl.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.