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.

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.

your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.

People will always tear you down and give you countless reasons to give up, but if you have faith in yourself, you can accomplish anything.

I buried my face against his neck, breathing him in - the smell of machine oil, summertime, a thousand memories

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.