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“Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.”
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“Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.”
Source : "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.
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“I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.”
Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com
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“People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.”
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“What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.”
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“Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.”
Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria
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“When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.”
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“My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.”