David Rockefeller

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

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

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.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.