We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.