Henry Ford

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

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.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.

Awareness without action is worthless.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.