"I also served on many government committees."

"I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite."

"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."

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."

"Wisdom principle 14 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 14."

"I'm a complete and utter busker."

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."