Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you think you can do it, you can.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
It's always too early to quit.
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.