Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

I do not like to be unkind.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.