Children have helped me a lot.
Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.
There is no man living who isnt capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.
Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what cant be done.
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.
We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.
In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.
