The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

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.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Like the morning sun, add sparkle, beauty, and warmth to the lives of others.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

I need to be on drugs to connect with nature.