Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

I am a Freedom Seeker and I choose to feel free.

Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.

Make time to be still.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?