I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person

Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.