L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

The test of true competence is the end result.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

Are you making life or is life making you?

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.