“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --''Let there be truth between us two forevermore.''”
“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -- and to put its trust in life.”
“No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.”
“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”
“You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”
“I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.”
“I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.”
“I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.”
“My father used to say: ''Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common.''”
“Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?”
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.”
“Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.”
“You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.”
“TRUST: I know that you will not -- deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously -- take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.”