Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...