I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.

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 know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

Most stories are based on something real.

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers

Translation: I’m an idiot.

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.