Why, she asked herself, why keep a wound open when forgiveness can close it?
We should all busy ourselves in being who we are,
We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such...
Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they’re often pleasantly surprised.
Tofu wore special flame-proof pants – that was well known. They call them fibbers’ trousers, she said knowledgeably. They’re more expensive, but they stop your pants going on fire when you lie.
That young man will go far, she said. I don’t know in what direction, but he will go far.
Skepticism had its place, but we should not lose sight of the possibility that some beliefs were both necessary and beneficial--a belief in human goodness being a prime example of this. There were ple...
Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but...
I’m very glad that Matthew phoned, he said. I’ve been out of touch, you know. It’s like that out here. You get caught up in your own life and you forget about family back home.
He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known. That is very well known, agreed Mma Ramotswe. Look at Adam. Look how he fell for Eve. Just because she had no...
Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive.
But God will surely punish her, Mma, then had decided that this was not the sort of thing that people said any more, even if it was what they were thinking. The trouble was, she thought, that God had...
Barbara said to herself: Oh, please, please, please! Please let nothing go wrong with this—this wildly improbable, impossible, but gorgeous thing. She was not sure to whom to address this invocation....
And they both had the land about them; the sky that went on forever, it seemed, and was filled with sun and with the air that they all needed, that the cattle needed, that the animals in the Kalahari...
And he readily admitted that he knew nothing about women's clothing, as most men would have to admit; and yet women always claimed to know what clothes were right for a man. There was some injustice h...
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something tha...
But although the rules are vagueAnd widely disregarded nowSome precepts remain: live with love - That is a rule we all can understand;Forgive those who need forgiveness,Which I think is everybody, mor...
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
Nemo dat quod non habet.
You can lose a piece of plain bread and not think twice about it, but when you lose one spread thickly with strawberry jam it's an altogether more serious matter.