Wrong to think the less of another for what he or she was. There was no moral obligation to others, nor necessarily to enthuse over them, but we did have to recognize their equal worth.
Has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person...
Wise men are remembered, they always are.
The problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left a...
Sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away.
People
Old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen was, Isabel ha...
If you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never had any difficulty with accepting that—but how limited would your thoughts be i...
Good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant. The borderline between good fortune and disaster, between plenitude and paucity, between t...
From that, there was nothing.
Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map.
Clichéd in their repetition and their superficiality, but part of an identity that saved us from feeling utterly lonely and detached, mere passengers on a circular rock spinning through space.
But then where would one end if one started to compose a list of the wrongs that this world had seen? Better perhaps, thought Mma Ramotswe, to make a list of those things that were right with the worl...
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.
All the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.
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 have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one pers...
You did not squeeze hands when you lied; it could not be done.
You can’t do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart.
You are innocent in your heart, she had said to him. That is the most important thing. And he had thought about that for a few moments before shaking his head and saying, I would like that to be true,...