Life is a warfare and a strangers sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. – Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. – Marcus Aurelius
My Botswana books are positive, and Ive never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative. – Alexander McCall Smith