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.

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

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

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.

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

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