Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Well done is better than well said.
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.