Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.

Nations are great as they are prosperous as they are industrious as they are just.

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.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

You are only as happy as your saddest child.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.