The pursuit of happiness which American citizens are obliged to undertake tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods tastes and aptitudes of youth.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space with all other matter.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants airports streets hotel lobbies parks and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.