Always desire to learn something useful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.