Henrik Tikkanen

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!