There is no mistake in nature.
I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.
We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.
Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.
We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.
You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
You know, it sounds like Im bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, theres not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.
Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.
You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.
Those unproductive hands may consume so great a share that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate this violent and forced encroachment.
