Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?