In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

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.

Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload."-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.