One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.