This feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection is what connects, unifies, and binds our humanity.

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.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.

Write your goals down. Write your goals on paper and not in your mind. That makes the vision plain. Spend quality time with yourself and review your life.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.