Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Well done is better than well said.
I can, therefore I am.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
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.