“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last”

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer”

“If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength”

“It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.”

“It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it”

“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”