When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids

I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen

The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist

I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie

The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone.

Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I'm very proud to be wearing the "C" for the Maple Leafs. It puts a smile on my face everyday

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.