While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.

Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

God bless me and my son John Me and my wife him and his wife Us four and no more.

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Music was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.