Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.