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.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

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

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.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

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.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.