you just have to open you eyes.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design an building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Lazarus Long

from Robert A. Heinlein's , Time Enough For Love

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -just stupid.)

It is impossible for a man to love his wife wholeheartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will "know", so why fret about it?

Dilusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

It is better to copulate than never.

All men are created unequal.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

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

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

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

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

Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing- and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.

Everybody lies about sex.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.