Henry Ford

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

What is life but education, anyway?

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Children have helped me a lot.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.