Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object and pursue it for life.

I fell in love with theater there and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.

If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

May joy and good fellowship reign and in this manner may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages increasing friendly understanding among nations for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic more courageous and more pure.