Because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what it is that has to be changed.
And Mma Potokwane remained uncertain whether Mma Ramotswe was testate or intestate.
Am lucky that I can make somebody so happy just by saying something.
Acknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between
You're right. Many nurses nowadays don't like doing the things that nurses used to have to do. Changing sheets and collecting bedpans - that sort of thing. Nursing has moved on, Bertie.'Bertie was puz...
You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life.
You say that you lost your child. You know how I feel then. You know that, don't you? It's a sadness that never goes away.
You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion.
Yes, but not in chairs that don't belong to us, countered Mma Makutsi. That's the trouble with this country, Mma—there are too many people sitting down in other people's chairs.
Why should everybody embrace the herd instinct, which required one to regard one set of politicians as being always in the right while demonizing another set?
Which is how most people acted when it came to temptation. They gave in. And we should never forget, thought Isabel, that every one of us is capable of doing the same thing if the game that we see for...
When you don’t talk about something, then something will talk about itself for you.
When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.
Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.
We were the Bechuanaland Protectorate then, and the British ran our country, to protect us from the Boers (or that is what they said). There was a Commissioner down in Mafikeng, over the border into S...
We want to reorganise the world, and that makes our brains jump the gun –sometimes. You look at a newspaper headline, take in one word, and before you know it your brain says: yes, that’s what it says...
We needed resentment, he said, as it was resentment which identified and underlined the wrong. Without these reactive attitudes, we ran the risk of diminishing our sense of right and wrong, because we...
We like to think that we plan what happens to us, but it is chance, surely, that lies behind so many of the great events of our lives -- the meeting with the person with whom we are destined to spend...
We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the outer person's defences: the intimacy of a love affair is a different matter altogether. A...
We are all human, she would say. Men particularly. You must not be ashamed.