All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillBe simple and sincere.
Sai BabaThis 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.
Dalai LamaSometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. SeussLife is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.
ConfuciusIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath TagoreThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan WattsIf you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinLive simply so others may simply live.
Mother TeresaIt is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia BarrFor every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
H. L. MenckenMan must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles LindberghAs you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauDid you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson WellesMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai LamaIn 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.
Lao TzuHere on the pulse of this new day, You may have the grace to look up and out, And into your sister's eyes into, Your brother's face your country, And say simply, Very simply, With hope, Good Morning.
Maya AngelouI'm just a simple country girl.
Dolly PartonAll truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand RussellOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
StendhalWhen the solution is simple God is answering.
Albert EinsteinIf you cannot endure abuse from another, just say a simple word or two, or else leave.
Sai BabaThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeSimple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard BachWe shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother TeresaWe have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo CoelhoDon't be "consistent", but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell HolmesHuman 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.
Leonardo da VinciComplex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.
Richard DawkinsNo architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John RuskinIt's simple, if it jiggles it's fat.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOur pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald ReaganThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettWomen have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation, of children in arms, and men in love.
H. L. MenckenThe right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin CoolidgeBirds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug CouplandMake everything as simple as possible but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinThe firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
ConfuciusThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. WashingtonBeauty is an ecstasy, it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all.
W. Somerset MaughamMarriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph CampbellThe simplest things are often the truest.
Richard BachLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel ProustMy pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel PaigeI believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert EinsteinThere's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law, punish those who do not.
Rush LimbaughMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliMy secret is simple - I pray.
Mother TeresaI have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao TzuWhen you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
Paulo CoelhoThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George EliotThe 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.
Bertrand RussellThoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich NietzscheBut what is happiness, except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusIt should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert EinsteinA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia WoolfIt 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.
John RuskinWell, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward HopperGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellTo disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.
Louis L'AmourThe Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent PealeAre creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma GandhiThe simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas SowellI got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven WrightI claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma GandhiMost of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert EinsteinSince when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill GatesThat'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.
Steve JobsSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da VinciIssues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack ObamaOn a level plain simple mounds look like hills, and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl MarxOh come on, you have got to be kidding me. I had good looks but missed them. It is as simple as that. They just weren't falling. Some nights I am on fire and other nights I have nights like tonight where the shots weren't going in.
Kobe BryantThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard DawkinsA bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya AngelouI describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai LamaGod always takes the simplest way.
Albert EinsteinThe statement of Christ is simple. He who sent me among you will come again . And he pointed to a lamb. The lamb is merely a symbol -- a sign. It stands for the voice - BABA. The announcement was The advent of BABA . He will wear a robe of red blooded robe. He will be short with a crown (of hair). The lamb is a sign and symbol of Love.
Sai BabaThe quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny DeppEverything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinWe just did not execute in overtime and the execution was really simple ... They just got the ball to Jason and let him operate.
Kobe BryantI 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.
Barack ObamaIt takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number add it to this number put the result there perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of let's say 1 000 000 per second. At 1 000 000 per second the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs