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.

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.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Time passes no matter what you do.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.