Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

"I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes."

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."

"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."

"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."

"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."

"Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts."

"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."

"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers."

"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil."

"Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A"

"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."

"What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A"

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago"