Such men knew their worth, but did not flaunt it. Such men could look anybody in the eye without flinching; even a poor man, a man with nothing, could stand upright in the presence of those who had we...
Sir Seretse Khama,
She is a good housemother, that one, said Mma Ramotswe. Mma Potokwane agreed. Whenever I hear people say that the country is going to the dogs—and there are such people, you know, Mma…
She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed...
Rich people are just people, said Mma Ramotswe. I have not met a rich person yet who isn’t just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.
Love had transformed the world for me. Transformed it.
Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know...
Inside every one of us, thought Mma Ramotswe, there is the child we once were, the child that was unsure about the world and our place in it.
If people came at you and started to scratch you, then of course you had the right to sit on them.
Es ist ein Zeichen geistiger Reife, seine Meinung zu ändern, wenn man merkt, dass man im Unrecht ist.
Already many of the memories of the previous two weeks had faded: the smell of that small hotel in St. Andrews; that mixture of bacon cooking for breakfast and the lavender-scented soap in the bathroo...
She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one...
There was any number of men like that, waiting for an attractive girl that they could latch on to and whose life they could slowly destroy.
Nemo dat quod non habet.
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the o...
There were many people who were unhappy, and wanted to move. Often they wished to come to the more fortunate countries—such as Botswana—in order to make more of their lives. That was understandable, a...
There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from...
Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
So one might cry for everything that was wrong with the world, for all the injustice and crudity and cruelty, for all the things that are stolen from people.