"Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook."
"One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer."
"Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye."
"It is still cheating, even if nobody comes."
"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important,..."
"We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell."
"Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty."
"Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed."