It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

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.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

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

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

Stop blaming and start aiming.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

It takes a strong person to apologize, to admit mistakes openly and to ask for forgiveness. It takes an even stronger person to take that failure, recognize the importance of that mistake and learn from it.

The greatest possession is self-possession.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.

Manchester City, the club and the fans, they were amazing. But I'm sorry, the city wasn't that nice. I was all the time at home, and I didn't enjoy it. It was raining all the time. I was a little bit upset.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.

In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.