Quotes from L. Ron Hubbard

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

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

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

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.

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

Boldness in itself is genius.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

The government thinks the psychologists can keep the population under control.

Women find beauty in men only when they find strength; there's something wrong with a woman when she falls in love with a fellow because he is pretty.

I know the world is an evil, capricious place and that men are basically bad and so, knowing that, I am always pleased to find some atom of goodness and only bored to see something evil.

Freedom and ability can be seen to be somewhat synonymous.

In what can a person become entrapped? Ideas. Ideas of disability are first and foremost in entrapment.

Zzt motioned with the blaster barrel. 'Why don't you just walk out of here and have a nice crap.

Come on now, laddie," Dunneldeen said. "Just hold on and they'll pull you up to the plane. 'Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.

My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write.

For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks. It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long-range handling that seldom fails. What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward.

A few years ago, I wrote Battlefield Earth to celebrate my golden anniversary as a writer. At nearly a half-million words, it was a bit larger than others I had turned out in my fifty-year career. But, after all, it was my anniversary so I decided to splurge.

He soured on life some seconds after he was born and has made a profession of deteriorating ever since.

The local IRS office lost about two million dollars in illegal collections they'd been getting.

Unless there is something to free men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery.