Quotes from Robert Heinlein

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color--by making point of how they don't care.

always remember that when things look darkest, they usually get considerably worse

Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto

Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting—there's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.

TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) by Robert Heinlein from his book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.

When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand and then look at it again.

But if you really believe that your neighbors must have laws for their own good, why shouldn't you pay for it?

The way to live a long time—oh, a thousand years or more—is something between the way a child does it and the way a mature man does it. Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever...

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology.

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

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

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.