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

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

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.

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.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.