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.

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.

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

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.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

I am capable of being idle.