Robert A. Heinlein

If possible, _x000D_ leave room for your enemy _x000D_ to become your friend.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

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

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

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.

We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.