While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking – which is different from what happened before – is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there’s been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It’s the core of what I’m about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It’s a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It’s the biggest factor in everything I do.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one’s all right, he turns legit.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.