Henry Ford

Nations are great as they are prosperous as they are industrious as they are just.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

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

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.