Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Who seeks shall find.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you think you can do it, you can.
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.