The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

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.

I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.