17 Quotes by Robert Heinlein

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color--by making point of how they don't care.

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

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

When One Teaches, Two Learn

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value