“If you care passionately about something has become the only test to determine if something is constitutional. How passionately do you care?”

“I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.”

“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”

“What was it like, he wondered, to care about something so passionately? He suspected it made her somehow more alive than he was.”

“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

“All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.”

“Follow your passion, give your goals your best shot and care about people you love.”

“Passion is something which very few of us have really felt. What we may have felt is enthusiasm, which is being caught up in an emotional state over something. Our passion is for something: for music, for painting, for literature, for a country, for a woman or a man; it is always the effect of a cause. When you fall in love with someone, you are in a great state of emotion, which is the effect of that particular cause; and what I am talking about is passion without a cause. It is to be passionate about everything, not just about something, whereas most of us are passionate about a particular person or thing. I think one must see this distinction very clearly. In the state of passion without a cause, there is intensity free of all attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment, and attachment is the beginning of sorrow.”

“If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong.”