I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

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

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.

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

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.