Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape.
One cannot hold power and not use it.
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they’re fun is a very sane person.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.
Communication is the universal solvent.
So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!
There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man’s confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
It is not man’s dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.