The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

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 can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.

We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.

Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.

I'm a very serious person.

The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.