Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

Simplify, simplify.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I love a natural look in pictures.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

That government is best which governs least.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

You just have to have a simple faith.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

An honest man is always a child.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.