I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

Pray, and let God worry.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Iran is not a nation-state; it’s a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Seeing is not always believing.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

True friends stab you in the front.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

I don’t believe in icons.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.