The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

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.

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

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

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

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 void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.