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

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.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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

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

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

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

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

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.

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

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.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

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.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

If you can talk, you can write.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

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

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.

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.

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.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

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

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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

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.

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.

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

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Simple goes a long way.

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

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

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.