There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

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.

Sometimes it’s best to stop searching for your passion. Instead, follow your curiosity and see where it leads.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.