Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.