Henry Ford

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

Music and song are, in my opinion, so fine and necessary a part of life that without them we cannot be said really to live at all.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. In the case of an automobile the sale of the machine is only something in the nature of an introduction. If the machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements-a dissatisfied customer.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

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 cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

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.

You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.

People are used to being coddled.