Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.