Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

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

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.

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

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.