Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
It's always too early to quit.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.