Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.

It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.

Discouragement is the illegitimate child of false expectations! Loyd Ogilive

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence

Never get lost in the crowd. Climb a mountain for a better view.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.