Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

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

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.