If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
Robert A. HeinleinLiberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
Robert A. HeinleinPatriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
Robert A. HeinleinThe basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Robert A. Heinlein