~ Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~

~ Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person ~

~ When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. ~

~ Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~

~ If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. ~

~ A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means ~

~ Passion is the genesis of genius. ~

~ 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. ~

~ Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific. ~

~ Intellectual passion drives out sensuality ~

~ Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about. ~

~ If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~

~ Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~

~ You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~

~ Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~