The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

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

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

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.