I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

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

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.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

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.

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

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.