If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

I do not like to be unkind.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.