Henry Ford

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

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.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Failure is no accident.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.