“It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.”

“Truth is simple. Very simple – so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“To ask the hard question is simple,
The simple act of the confused will.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Very simple. I'm putting up the money, and I also have ears.”

Simon Cowell (1959) English reality television judge, television producer and music executive

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

“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 Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

“There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

“Very fine, but why do you put so many wrong notes in? Basically, it is all built on simple triads.”

Richard Strauss (1864–1949) German composer and orchestra director

“It's cold, it's always cold in the sanatorium; which leads me to speculate that, maybe, and just maybe, it's not a simple coincidence.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos