We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

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

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.