Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

There are few strong new forces in the world today. Man ‘ s civilization is tired, fed up with war, poverty and crime.Perhaps it is natural that anyone who offered help would also be fought...

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[ ‘¦]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man...

The best way to know any future is to cause one. And thats why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, youve taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the...

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

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you ‘ re in good shape.

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there’s no game in progress, that’s all — in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you’re permitted to...

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game interest, contest, activity and possession....

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won’t always be here. But before you go, whisper this to...

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free he is his own trap.

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

If you really want to make big money, start a religion.

Battlefield Earth

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

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

A child … should have a silent, as painless as possible, birth. The delivery itself should … be as calm and no-talk as possible.

The way out is the way through

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that’s live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That’s living. Living does not consist of...

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

A woman who wants her child to have the best possible chance will find a doctor who will agree to keep quiet especially during the delivery, and who will insist upon silence being maintained in...

A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind,...

The rapidity of particle flow alone determines power.

Communication is the universal solvent

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.Don ‘ t ever try to stop truth. It ‘ s the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individuals freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is...

All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they ‘ re bad, it ‘ s only evident they ‘ re codes. Mores bind the...

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.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:”The work was free. Keep it so.”Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this – look to source writings, not to...

You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no ‘beyond’ to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave....

There is only one security, and when you’ve lost that security, you’ve lost everything you’ve got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want...

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.

Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens.

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of...

To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. [But] in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to...