Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

I won't let the sun go down on me.

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."