“Having the foresight to plan to earn a living, is half of the peace and leisure in life.”

“A life lived in fear… is a life half-lived.”

“Half the fun is plan to plan”

“The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.”

“The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.”

“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”

“I could not imagine a life that way…I wanted to be like everybody else. You marry a man who supports you – it never occurred to me I'd have to earn a living, and nor did I study to earn a living.”

“And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.”

“Leisure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leisure: Where first were great and flourishing Cities, there was first the study of Philosophy.”

“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”