“Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worry about it. Live each day as if you were to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the… — 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
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
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human… — 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
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
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
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
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
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
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share