• You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day. You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted. The day isn't a happy day. Well, what's changed? You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world. Something must have changed. Well, probably it was you.

    L. Ron Hubbard: You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
 You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers.
 Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning,
 you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted.
 The day isn't a happy day.
 Well, what's changed?
 You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world.
 Something must have changed.
 Well, probably it was you.
    L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.8, Bridge Publications, Inc.