“You may think this a strange story, but it is not. There are people whose lives are every bit as unusual as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“(Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her…) “Having the right approach to life was a great gift in this life….Do… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find the God who… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
