Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

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.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

I do my job like I breathe.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

There is spontaneity to my work.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.