Of being linked with each other, we have every temptation to be selfish and unmoved by others and by their plight. Our towns, our cities, our places become no more than hotels, with all that lack of i...
Modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky,
It evokes so powerfully what we all must have felt as children—the conviction that things are better elsewhere if only we could get there. The powerlessness of the child is what makes that so poignant...
Have misgivings about people not having a spiritual life. It’s so … so shallow. I sometimes think that life without a spiritual dimension must be like being made of cardboard—and as deep and satisfyin...
Chairs are public, and one only needs to seek permission to sit in another’s chair if the owner of the room is present; once you were by yourself, any chair was fair game. Except the chairs of really...
Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology
Been able to find out what the really big questions are.
All of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.
A word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But
Znajdujemy w życiu to, czego szukamy, powiedział kiedyś do niej ojciec. I miał rację: jeśli szukasz w życiu szczęścia, znajdziesz szczęście, jeśli szukasz nieufności, zazdrości i nienawiści, to znajdz...
You'd think he'd look more ashamed of himself, said Bertie. You'd think that he'd look more ashamed of being a Campbell.
You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.
Without delay, echoed Charlie. Those are very good words, I think. Without delay. Please will you pay my bill without delay. Please leave without delay. Please improve your attitude without delay… Mma...
Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some...
When somebody does wrong, Emma, we must remember that that person is still a human being like the rest of us. We must not rush to throw the first stone. We must remind ourselves that all of us do wron...
What was wrong with the past? asked Mama Ramotswe. She intended the question seriously. There were too many people who took the view that the past was bad, that we should rid ourselves of all traces o...
What they would see first would be a darkening of the sky in the east—a change from empty blue to a grey-white that would gradually shade into a heavy, inky purple. And then there would be a wind—the...
We were all people—men and women—and you could never say that one group of people was less important than another.
We must not eat dripping any more,’ warned Mma Makutsi from behind a healthy living magazine. ‘We must give up such things, Mma.’ This advice had been accompanied by a stern look in Mma Ramotswe’s dir...
We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little thi...