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

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 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

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

I no longer fear battles and storms that come in the path but afraid of losing someone that is dear to my heart, to whom without winning battles and passing through storms means nothing to me.

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".