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

If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

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

I think I am basically a happy person.

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.

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.