Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

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.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

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.

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.