Henry Ford

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

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

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.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Insight emerges out of silence.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.