Elegance is refusal.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

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.

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

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

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

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

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

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.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

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.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

I like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

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.

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

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.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it’s really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform – or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.