Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

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.

You should only fall in love with someonewhose arms are open, and strong enough to catch you.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

I would rather be funny than gorgeous, absolutely. Because it's too hard to be gorgeous, you know. I could make a stab at gorgeous as long as I had something funny to say to get out of it.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.