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.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

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.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

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

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]

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.