Many of our members used drugs before they knew about Scientology. Once they found Scientology and took just a few basic steps, they shot up the tone scale and dropped drugs from one day to the next.

An obsessive sense of responsibility that compels you to go everywhere to destroy all bad ideas, all at once and all at the same time, is almost as crazy as not fighting them at all. There is a spectrum between irresponsibility – bad – and total responsibility – bad. In between, there is a mixture of responsibility and irresponsibility. This is a perfectly acceptable attitude.

The most fundamental button man has is help. And that button which can be most easily tampered with or upset or aberrated in man is help. When help is straightened out in an individual, not only does his IQ go up but his freedom, of course, and belief and confidence in himself increase. Help is the button which can be just knocked to pieces or re-established in the individual. That's a tremendously powerful button.

As an individual goes up the tone scale, he is more and more of the dynamics and he is more in each dynamic. You expand your space into the dynamics. You expand your control, your knowledge, and your responsibility into the dynamics.

It is probably also the first time in many thousands of years that it is possible to simply say no. Today, we have achieved the level of prosperity that allows us to say no. But does that make "yes-sayers" the losers? There may be a spark of truth in this. I think "yes-sayers" are courageous people. They are people who set off for new horizons. They are the ones who invest in the future – and believe in it.