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

“A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.”

“You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.”

“Confidence is the only bond of friendship.”

“Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God.”

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”

“He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.”

“True friendship implies full confidence, which may only be completely given or completely withdrawn. If friendship has continually to be analyzed, nursed, and cured, it will cause more anguish than love itself, without having love's strength and its remedies. And if this confidence is ill-placed? Well - I would rather be betrayed by a false friend than deceive a true one.”

“Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.”

“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”