Your Best Friend

Dr. Norman Peale writes of how he met Henry Ford:

"I met the legendary Henry Ford only once. It was when I was a newspaper reporter in Detroit in 1921. Coming out of the Detroit railroad station, I saw a man standing beside a car and I recognized him as Henry Ford. He was looking at a piece of paper that he held in his hand. In the front seat of the car was a woman I recognized as Mrs. Ford.

"I walked over and said, 'Mr. Ford, I may never have this opportunity again and I admire you so much. I would just like to shake your hand.' He extended his hand and asked what I did. I told him I worked on a newspaper.

"He then asked me a seemingly irrelevant question. 'Who is your best friend?' Without waiting for my answer, he tore off a ragged piece from the paper he was holding and wrote with a pencil, 'Your best friend is the person who brings out the best that is within you,' and signed it 'Henry Ford.'"

~~ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, This Incredible Century