Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

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.

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.