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

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.

I also served on many government committees.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments. Now it seems so cheesy if you stop your act and say, "This is why we have to help them kids. We've got to make sure them kids can read."

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.