So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what it was all about, but Mma Ramotwe had yet to meet such a man. Maybe they existed elsewhere - in Fra...
Small ones too, Mma Sometimes big problems are really tiny ones when you look at them in the right way.
She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did...
She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relationships between people. If you could not count on other people to mean what they said, or to do wha...
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
Mma Ramotswe found it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have no people. There were, she knew, those who had no others in this life, who had no uncles, or aunts, or distant cousins of any d...
It was time for tea as it so often was.
It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.
Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she wou...
Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?
I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people.
His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?
For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at...
And then I awoke, and just as Auden did when he awoke from his dream of the croquet match, I felt that I had been vouchsafed a vision. It was a feeling of utter elation and goodwill—in other words, a...
...Perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differently...
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performa...
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.