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.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

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.

There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

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

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

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.