Henry Ford

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

No one ever wins a war.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. I’m very sensitive to it.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Zen mind is not Zen mind. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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