How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.
L. Ron HubbardIf a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
L. Ron HubbardAn individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.
L. Ron HubbardI loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.
L. Ron HubbardYou don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
L. Ron HubbardWho said the road doesnโt have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesnโt mean they canโt get up again and keep going.
L. Ron HubbardDarwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.
L. Ron Hubbard