It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

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.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.