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.

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.

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

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

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.

Romney raised $10 million. That’s a dollar for every position he’s had on healthcare.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.