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

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.

Give everyone you meet a precious gift

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty