You never know what motivates you.
After a storm comes a calm.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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.