The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

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.

What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

i love you, even you hate me

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

Paint something every day.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.