One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

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.

When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse!

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

I had a fear of being alone.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don’t end up being someone you don’t want to be.

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.