"As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes."

“It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

“My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.”

“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

“Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.”

“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.”

“A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.”

“I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.”