Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Never live life without a hope. Hope is a tree of life.

I have a dream that one day this world will be very peaceful and people will fight, not with their weapons, but with their love.

Do everything with love.

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.