Henry Ford

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

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

Life is trying things to see if they work.

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

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.