Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

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

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.