Passion gives you direction. It serves as an inner compass that links you to action.

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.

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.