Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond mo… - Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Son, people do odd things for money, but they’ll do still more drastic things for power over money. Anybody sittin’ close to a billion credits is in danger; it’s like keeping a pet rattlesnake.

A second sun blazed white and swelled visibly as he watched. What on Earth would have been—so many times had been—a climbing mushroom cloud was here in open space a perfect geometrical sphere, growing unbelievably. It swelled still larger, dropping from limelight white to to silvery violet, became blotched with purple, red and flame. And still it grew, until it blanked out the earth beyond it.
At the time it had been transformed into a radioactive cosmic cloud Circum-Terra had been passing over, or opposite, the North Atlantic; the swollen incandescent cloud was visible to most of the habitable portions of the globe, a burning symbol in the sky.