simplicity

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.

If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.

I never thought of myself as a writer but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed- it is a process of elimination.

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first and pity him afterwards.

The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them.

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over steadily almost irresistibly like falling snow.