Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.

I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.

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

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

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.