Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

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 threat is stronger than the execution.

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.