Fashion has never been considered part of culture in Canada, and I think that needs to happen.

People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.

No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property you have occupied if you can. In the end, that will be worth quite a bit of money.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.

The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.

Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

I was raised as a red diaper baby.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.