Henry Ford

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

A low wage business is always insecure.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.