Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.

Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.