Henry Ford

A peaceful nation is one that has the means to make war and restrains.

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

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people (this may not be true of all peoples, however) approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

There’s no limit to the things you can do.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.