I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
Almost certainly however the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
The fire in the belly is essential otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
Faith is not a notion but a real strong essential hunger an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us so it attracts and unites with its like.
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed but in entrepreneurship that's not how it works.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive of course but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Before this learning experience I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons and liberals who supported them.
Emigration forced or chosen across national frontiers or from village to metropolis is the quintessential experience of our time.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
As a kid I did want to be an old-timer since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.