Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.