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.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

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

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

I think I am basically a happy person.

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.