The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

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.

She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure.

I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.