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

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.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

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.

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.

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