High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

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

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.