Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is.

I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.

Nothing is too good to be true.

I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.

There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.