Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

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.

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

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

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

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.