- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I've been afraid so many times that I am no longer scared to be afraid again. What can't be cured must be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
