Children have helped me a lot.
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.
Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.
A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.
The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
Life is managed; it is not cured.
