"Time Enough for Love" Quotes

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?

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

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

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an 'intellectual'—find out how he feels about astrology.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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