Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

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

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.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Hell is other people.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

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

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

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

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

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.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

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

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

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

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

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

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.

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.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.