Quotes from L. Ron Hubbard

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

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.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

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

Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.

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

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

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

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

Man is an endangered species.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.