I think I am basically a happy person.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

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.

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.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

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