Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call...

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal – the utterly mean grubby things; and when we...

How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives!

Working hard is a fool’s anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, “the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part...

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

Piano is like drudgery.