Henry Ford

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

Now I’m a warrior.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

You have to name it to claim it.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.