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

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

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.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.