Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.
Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.
Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.
EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. . . . Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.
I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.
We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. . .
You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.