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

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

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

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.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.