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.

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.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?”“Uh . . . no.”“See? That’s a lie!

Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.