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.

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: ‘Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.’

The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God’s will and refusing to do it.

A city that outdistances man’s walking powers is a trap for man.

Love’s way of dealing with us is different from conscience’s way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

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.

Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

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

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

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.