“The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.”

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

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

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

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

Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

I didn’t think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me.

I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.