All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.
Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.
I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.
Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.
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 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'.
There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.
The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.
This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.
True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
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.
Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.
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