“It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth.”

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?”

“Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.”

“Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.”

“No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.”

“Without conflict, there can be no trust. Conflict exists to show us who is there for us unconditionally and who is just there for the benefits. No one trusts a yes-man.”

“To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.”

“Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.”

“The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”