Henry Ford

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

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 don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

I like to surprise myself.

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

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.