If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

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.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

Like people, plants respond to extra attention.

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.