“Because no one can be trusted.”

“Without trust there’s no way that any organization can sustain innovation. Because without trust no one is willing to take the risks that innovation require.”

“one can in fact trust a four hundred pound male gorilla, before one can ever trust a Roman Catholic priest”

“there are things in life which one can confide in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because of this that I write to my mother without the knowl- edge of the others, for whom my secrets are quite uninteresting, or, rather, . unnecessary.”

“I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.”

“Trust, like Christ-like love, is to be extended not because others deserve it but because they need it, because they can become trustworthy (or loving) by being nurtured in a community of trust and love. We need to extend trust, even if doing so makes us vulnerable to pain and great cost, in order to save our own souls.”