Henry Ford

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

A happy and contented nation is an example to the whole world. Where there is contentment there must be peace.

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.

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

Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.