1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

If tempted by something that feels ‘altruistic,’ examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

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

You do not truly own anything that you can’t carry in both arms at a dead run.

It’s better to copulate than not.

He’s as weird as snake’s suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime – and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count.

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter – and much safer.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.