Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.