The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's always too early to quit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.