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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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..

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

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities..

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

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

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….

We also confuse trust with familiarity..

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today i….

On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much mo….

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 count….

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusatio….

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices..