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

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

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.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

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

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren’t properly alert.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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.

You just have to have a simple faith.

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.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

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

Simplify, simplify.

Simple goes a long 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.

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

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches in World War I. I truly believe that one of the E.U.’s greatest achievements is that it has kept its members out of conflict in Europe.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

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

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

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.

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

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

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

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

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

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

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

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

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.