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.

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

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.

I also served on many government committees.

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

It's coexistence or no existence.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.