“It was investing when you know something no one else knows.”

“Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else, it's, you drive past, you know you have to do something about it. You know you are the only one who can really help. That's what drives me.”

“Generosity is a good investment when you know who to be generous with, and also, who not to be generous with.”

“When you think long-term, the edge is really investing because others can't know.”

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

“You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.”

“And if I tried
to give you something else,
something outside myself,
you would not know
that the worst of anyone
can be, finally,
an accident of hope”

“You know how easily things grow out of nothing, when they pass through a mouth that smears them all over and makes something else out of them”

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

“We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.”