“Does absolute reliance carry with it a complete exchange of confidences? I believe that true friendship cannot exist otherwise.”

“The substantial difference between me and a friendship, I believe in true friendship.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“I can't be sure God does not exist… On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six… That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

“We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you. If God exists you must have the experience of God in the moment; otherwise you are absent and God cannot exist for you.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“Reason does not exist for the sake of life, but life for the sake of reason. An existence which does not of itself satisfy reason and solve all her doubts, cannot be the true one.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte book The Vocation of Man

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer