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"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow."
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"A man needs only his daily bread."

"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

"For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor."

"I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home."

"Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!"

"Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!"

"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."

"To be simple is the best thing in the world."

"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
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