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

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

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.

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.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

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