To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I can, therefore I am.
After a storm comes a calm.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Well done is better than well said.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Never complain and never explain.
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.