I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

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.

Those who want to learn, listen. Those who do not want to think, speak.

Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory. They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.