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.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

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

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