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

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

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.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

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

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.