Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

We 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.

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.

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