Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

People leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard-bound rule. A man with a clean heart can’t be hurt. The man or woman who must must must become a victim and depart is departing because of his or her own overts and withholds. It doesn’t matter whether the person is departing from a town or a job or a session. The cause is the same.