Henry Ford

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

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

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

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

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I like to surprise myself.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.