Robert A. Heinlein

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers chapter 4
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
Robert A. Heinlein - "If This Goes On"
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.

- Robert A. Heinlein