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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between; does what he wants to do.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields….
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
…it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
