Quotes from L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Scientology...is not a religion.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

Are you making life or is life making you?

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

Oh yes as a matter of fact it's quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.