“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

“What for is marriage? It is to unite a man and a woman to enjoy a natural life with happiness. It is to find solace after hard work. Most of the people do not realize that marriages are for sharing pleasures of the wedded life.”

“It does something to your brain which is odd… you have to work really hard not to be a real d**k (in personal life).”

“Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”

“Marriage is compromise and hard work, and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized”

“You don't have to work hard to be average, work hard and smart to stand out.”