There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.
There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to p...
There was corruption at every turn, and those who stood for honesty and integrity were more and more vulnerable, more and more isolated amongst the hordes of people who simply had no moral sense. And
There is plenty of work for love to do.
There are some very inventive adults, Mma. When you listen to them, you have to divide everything they say by two, and then take away ten. As you have to do with some politicians.
There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.
The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.
The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away,
The trouble with technology is that it’s dehumanised us – it’s removed the restraints of ordinary human interactions. So we lose the notion that the person with whom we’re dealing is a person like us,...
The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things.
The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle.
The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa
That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?
That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.
That was the marvelous thing about going back to one’s roots; there was no need for explanation.
That sent her friends to the dictionary, which gave her additional satisfaction. To dispatch one's friends to a dictionary from time to time is one of the more sophisticated pleasures of life, but it...
That place is the place we have always been, and if you think that where you have been is where you should be, then why go to another place that you do not know at all and may not be as good as the pl...
That is why the artist will always be happy—no matter how the world treats him. If he knows that what he creates is good, then he can bear the indifference of others.
That is important, said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. One does not want a lady who talks too much.
Sometimes the world seemed so unfair: good people were tricked or bullied by bad people, and the bad people seemed to get away with it. If only he could do something about it, he said to himself. But...