"I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance."

“McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women.”

Source : "McLaren celebrates 50 years in Formula One" by Sarah Holt, edition.cnn.com. September 2, 2013.

“I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.”

“For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.”

Source : "I can get really extreme" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

“I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.”

“I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.”

“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”

Source : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

“Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.”

“You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything”