Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

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.

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

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

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