Henry Ford

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

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.

Music and song are, in my opinion, so fine and necessary a part of life that without them we cannot be said really to live at all.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

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.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

There is no reality, only perception.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.