passion

When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift . . . if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.