Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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.

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