It is excellent for a man to be simple in his tastes, to avoid extravagance, to own no possessions, to entertain no craving for worldly success.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

As long as men learn to live respectfully with their partners, they have nothing to fear from the law.

If any man has just merciful and kindly instincts he would be a gentleman, for he would need nothing else in the world.

I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.

To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. (p. 161)

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

That man is happiest, and is secure in his own possession of himself, who can await the morrow without apprehension.

Life was created simple and it is important to live it as such. Simplicity is inherent; it leads to peace of mind and tranquility.

And that is how he passed from this life to the next, without fanfare, with characteristic simplicity, fearless, opening his eyes that last time to make sure we were fine before he went on.

...live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.

If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and differs with no one and experiments in no way and is not sick and does not endanger the ease and peace of mind or steady unbroken flow of the town, then that unit can disappear and never be heard of.