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

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

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.

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

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

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.