The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

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.

It is better to do the will of God than seek your own ways.

Time is a waste of money.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Can you say something about nothing?

why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

The prince in The Leopard was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.