Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.

Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.

Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?

Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.

Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

I hate to say it to the kids out there but I just kind of blew off everything and made snowboarding the number one priority in my life

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.