Henry Ford

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

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.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I like to surprise myself.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.