It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.

This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.