A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means.

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

Avoid complexities. Make everything as simple as possible.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.