Passion

Honor your calling. Don't worry about how successful you will be. Focus on how significant you can be in service, and the success will take care of itself.

Don't confuse success with excellence. The poet Robert Penn Warren once told me that 'careerism is death.'

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

You have to love what you do. If you don't love it, don't do it.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

You've got to want to do whatever you want to do more than you want to be whatever you want to be. Want to write more than you want to be a writer. Want to heal more than you want to be a doctor.

Passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Talent is really the gift of love. Talent happens when you are in love with something and you devote your life to it, and it's your love of it that makes you want to keep doing it.

The world needs your energy, your passion — it doesn't need your indifference.

The important thing in life is to follow your passion — no matter what it is — for whatever mysterious reasons.

Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement.

I still get up at 5:30 every morning because I like my life so much that I hate to waste any of it by sleeping more than is necessary.