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.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

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.

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

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

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

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.