Henry Ford

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

No one ever wins a war.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

There can be no bosses in our country except the people. The job of the government is to serve, not to dominate.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Without risk, there isn’t any living communication.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

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.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.