It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.

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 reality is that every single person is individual and special. There has never been and will never be another person on the Earth like you!

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

I like being around people that mean what they say.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.