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I trust no one, not even myself.
Sep 17, 2025
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight
It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.
Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.’ (Syn)
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
[About Paz De La Huerta....] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.
If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?
That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.
I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.
I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.
Don't trust anyone over 30.
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.
What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.
Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.
Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.
[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.
I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.