Worthwhile Pursuits Quotes

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

The goals for me have changed somewhat. There's a bit of seduction to the idea of being on network, but it got to the point where that wasn't important. What's important is doing something worthwhile. Which is why I've always avoided being on a sitcom. Yeah, it's high-profile and it's on a network, but you know what? You could be on Suddenly Stewart.

It takes just as much work to do a study of something that is unimportant as it does to study something important, so why not pick something important where you may affect the world.