Who would not rather trust and be deceived? ~ Eliza Cook.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~ George MacDonald.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. ~ Peter Drucker.

Love all, trust a few. ~ William Shakespeare.

"Friends are these people who ask you how you are and wait for an answer." ~ Anon. (a prolific quotable person)

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~ Anaïs Nin

"Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing — it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up." ~ Bernard Cooke

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." ~ Henry Brook Adams

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'" ~ C.S. Lewis

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." ~ Donna Roberts