For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the share….

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. ….

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 m….

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited..

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

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

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level..

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust..

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities..

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown..

We also confuse trust with familiarity..

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 s….

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked..

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

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 a….

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 so….

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the tho….

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer..

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

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty….

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 res….