"The greatest thing in life is to..." - Quote by Henry Ford

“Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.”

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

“The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.”

“Youth is just wasted on young people.”

“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.”

“For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.”

“Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.”

“The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.”

“The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”