Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love.

Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!