We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.  ~Benjamin Franklin
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good [...]