If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.