Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

Whoever said 'It’s not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

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

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.