David Rockefeller

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

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

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.

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.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.