Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

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

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.