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

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

One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.