Henry Ford

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Right now, it’s like this.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.