Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

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.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

read for life read for your mindread till you can't read...

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.