What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.