Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.