Henry Ford

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

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.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.