The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

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.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail