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]

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

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

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

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

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.