All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Letting go is hard, but always worth your efforts.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.