I also served on many government committees.

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

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.