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]

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

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.)

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

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.