It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

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

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

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.