The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

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.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

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