The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you’ll find out that people don’t know that. They think that less awareness is the road out – and that is the road down into the basement.
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
I’d like to start a religion. That’s where the money is.
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled.
If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he’s crazy.
A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.
Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.
I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.
Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.
To be happy, one only must be able to confront or experience those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.