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

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.

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.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

I'm a wiseass and a smartass, and I always have been.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Never floss a stranger.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in.

I have been accused of never saying no.