Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.
If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.
While President, I have been President - emphatically.
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.
Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.
Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.
What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that.
