Robert A. Heinlein Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”

“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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 never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”

“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.”

“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.”