1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.