All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
I love being one half of a romantic couple.
Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.
I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.
I was blinded by being a romantic person.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
It's my favorite role - being a mom.