Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

‘Savage’ describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.