The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
Alexander McCall SmithRitual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
Alexander McCall SmithWe should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
Alexander McCall Smith