My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

When I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions, instead of controlling them, is trying to play the angel.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Yes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Curiosity n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.