Faith like a jackal feeds among the tombs and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Music and language are a vital element. We as actors and directors offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

In Canada women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.