Henry Ford

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.