Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.