Henry Ford

Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people (this may not be true of all peoples, however) approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.

In the long run people are going to buy the cheapest and the best article no matter where it is made.

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

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

Nothing endures but change.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.

Every loss of life is terrible.

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