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

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.