Henry Ford

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

What you possess, you lose.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.