I’m just a simple country girl.

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.

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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

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

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

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

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.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.

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.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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

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 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.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

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.

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

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

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

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.

Simplify, simplify.

I love a natural look in pictures.

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.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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.

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.

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

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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.

An honest man is always a child.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Elegance is refusal.

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

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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

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