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

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Act, and God will act.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

My friends are my estate.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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.

God always has patience.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

God always takes the simplest way.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.