James

“Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Is this Paradise?'
'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”
― Robert A Heinlein, Friday