1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

There is no safety this side of the grave

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.