People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.
The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.
Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.
Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you.
Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.
If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn’t even have a future.
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.
All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.
Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.
Music is indeed the Universal Language.
Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.
My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.