There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.

Wolfe is describing a kind of charisma that feels tangible—an embodied “richness and joy” that seems to radiate outward and alter the atmosphere around a person. By calling it “first of all a physical quality,” he suggests it is registered immediately in presence, energy, voice, or bearing, before it is understood intellectually. Yet he then reframes it as “a quality of the spirit,” implying the physical impression is an outward sign of an inner abundance: generosity of attention, vitality, and an affirmative stance toward life. The quote values affective influence—how certain people transmit uplift and meaning through everyday contact—over status or achievement.