Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

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 immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

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