Henry Ford

A peaceful nation is one that has the means to make war and restrains.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

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.

We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

Without risk, there isn’t any living communication.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!