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- Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
- Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
- Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
- I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
- Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
- The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
- What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
- Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
- As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
- Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
- I grow more intense as I age.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
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