Henry Ford

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

Christmas stands for the human factor which makes life tolerable midst the hurry of commerce and production. All of us need the annealing effect of Christ’s example to relieve the hardening we get in the daily struggle for material success.

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

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.

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

Wide awake and so confused.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.