"Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly."

“I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.”

“One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”

“This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.”

Source : Kerry Gleeson (2003). “The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

“No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.”

“We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.”

“But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.107, tredition

“If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up.”

“Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?”