"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Trust More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To rule is easy, to govern difficult." "It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united." "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." More In Trust "You’d think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three."― John Podhoretz "The decision is ‘trust fund’ versus ‘no more Medicaid’ – and that shouldn’t be a tough decision."― Haley Barbour "One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing."― E. L. Doctorow