1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Specialisation is for insects!

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).