The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend

Peace is everyone’s birthright.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

There is no place like home.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).