It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

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.

Even this late it happens:the coming of love, the coming of light.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

I think all good art is outsider art.