Henry Ford

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

A happy and contented nation is an example to the whole world. Where there is contentment there must be peace.

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.