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.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
