High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

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

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.

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

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

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

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