I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

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

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

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

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.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

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.

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.

God always takes the simplest way.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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

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.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

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.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

I’m just a simple country girl.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

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

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

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

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

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Elegance is refusal.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.