1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

When railroading time comes you can railroad – but not before.

Make money, lose money – who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

The meek shall inherit the earth – a 6 foot plot above them.

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.

Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

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

He went on to Jubal, “ ‘Thou art God.’ It’s not a message of cheer and hope, Jubal. It’s a defiance – and an unafraid unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.