Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

In the wilderness, God performs His mighty miracles.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

I would love to study cultures and people.

I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well.

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.