Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

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.

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.