If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

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

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.