“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death”

“Water is the driving force in nature.”

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

“Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”