Notice what your inner critic is saying, and issue a cease and desist! Regain control. Resist, and refuse to listen.

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.

In modern time slowness is new sickness.

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!

Running would help with the weight, but the weight did not help with running.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.