Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
Only the educated are free.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.