It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

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.

Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you.

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

What feeds a fighters soul is victory.

Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.