My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

I’m a simple living girl who usually spends her time on the beach, wears flip-flops, avoids makeup, and likes to attend gym activities. My husband and I are easy people.

The magic of baseball is that it can turn a simple game into a lifelong love affair.

Being grown up kinda sucks and I’m really just missing the simple times.

It’s a simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be

Remorse.– Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

I still dream of simple life Boy meets girl, makes her his wife But love don’t exist When you live like this That much I know

Simple goes a long way

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on

I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don’t get obsessed with one style or one skill.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance

We have the same job we’ve always had, to say that there are no final solutions, there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution that says if you will just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you will simply abandon your critical faculties, a world of idiotic bliss can be yours.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

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

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become

I have always been attracted to the voluptuousness of austerity. I never chose the style of my life because it hurt. It was on the contrary. I feel most comfortable and most abundant when things are very simple and I know where everything is and there’s nothing around that I don’t need.