“I have learned an important principle:Simple things work, often to our dumbfounded surprise,for we tend to distrust the simple and strive for the complex.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.”

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.”

“The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.”

“Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.”