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

Budget the luxuries first.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I’m going to put it to you straight. Never mind about being chief engineer of a planet; these days even a farmer needs the best education he can get. Without it he’s just a country bumpkin, a stumbling peasant, poking seeds into the ground and hoping a miracle will make them grow.