L. Ron Hubbard
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.Collection: Hope
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.Collection: Life
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in Scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.Collection: Science
Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.Collection: Marriage
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'.Collection: Movies
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.
Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.
One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
I am a writer of the textbooks of Scientology.
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.Collection: Lying
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.Collection: Writing
The best way to know any future is to cause one.Collection: Way
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!Collection: Men
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.Collection: New Beginnings
We've got some new ways to make slaves here.Collection: Way
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.Collection: Book
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.Collection: Honesty
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.Collection: Work
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.Collection: Giving Up
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.Collection: Bodybuilding
The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.Collection: Winning
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.Collection: Faces
The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.Collection: Men
What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.Collection: Lost Everything
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.Collection: Simplicity
To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.Collection: Love
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.Collection: Book
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.Collection: True Friend
There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.Collection: Important
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.Collection: Lying
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.Collection: Wall
Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.Collection: Tolerance
The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.Collection: Race
The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!Collection: Decision
Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.Collection: Believe
One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.Collection: Beautiful
People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.Collection: People