Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

God has no religion.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.