"How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: “this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”"

"You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better."

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

"Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

"[Rousseau], [t]he man who would be sincere is unconsciously insincere. This confirms the supposition I began with: that a contradiction exists between self-consciousness and sincerity. To be conscious of a self, vis-a-vis other selves, is already to expose that self to corruption."

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

"Bashful sincerity and comely love."

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

"All religions are incorporated in the principle of Truth, Simplicity and Love."

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

"Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue. Be what thou seemest; live thy creed; Hold up to earth the torch divine; Be what thou prayest to be made; Let the great Master's steps be thine."

"Less is more."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

"When true simplicity is gain'd To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, To turn, turn will be our delight 'Till by turning, turning we come round right."

"'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free."

"I was particularly won over by his sweet disposition, by his general kindness, by his simplicity, and by his friendliness."

"Simplify, then add lightness"

"Do nothing but what is necessary. ... By this rule a man has the double pleasure of making his actions good and few into the bargain. For the greater part of what we say and do, being unnecessary, if this were but taken away, we should have both more leisure and less disturbance. And therefore before a man sets forward, he should ask himself this question, "Am I not upon the verge of something unnecessary?""

"Simplicity is very complicated."

"Clancy got a very simple view of the world. Good versus evil. Evil seems to get the upper hand. Good triumphs with vastly superior automatic weapons!"

"Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential."

"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."

"The rose has told In one simplicity. That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence."

"Have pity on my simplicity, for I am but a mortal."

"“She seems very sincere,” Asura told Pieter. “A word with oddly positive connotations,” Peter said, nodding. “In my experience those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.”"

"“You’re sincere enough.” She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!”"

"Mountains don’t move for noise; they shift with persistence."

"The struggles you face are the pen…"

"The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."

"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo."

"For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement!"

"The waters wear the stones."

"So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success."

"God is with those who persevere."

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."

"If we have no aptitude or natural taste for geometry this does not mean that our faculty for attention will not be developed by wrestling with a problem or studying a theorem. On the contrary it is almost an advantage. ... Without our knowing or feeling it, this apparently barren effort has brought more light into the soul. ... Every time that a human being succeeds in making an effort of attention with the sole idea of increasing his grasp of truth, he acquires a greater aptitude for grasping it, even if his effort produces no visible fruit."

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

"Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out."

"Nightmares never last, Mom. One day you wake up and they're gone."

"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."

"Diamonds are only chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see."

"We shall escape the uphill by never turning back."

"Run every day. If you can't run, walk fast. If you can't walk fast, walk as fast as you can. If you can't walk, limp. If you can't limp, crawl. If you can't crawl, roll. If you can't roll, imagine you are running."

"When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must—but don't you quit. … Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup. And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown."

"What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned."

"Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur."

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."