Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

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

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.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn 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. Specialization is for insects.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

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 are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

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

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.