David Rockefeller

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. ”

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001. ”

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. ”

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

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic. ”

Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good. ”

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. ”

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. ”

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate. ”

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small. ”