When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

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.

There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.