Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

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.

I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.