Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

— Margaret Atwood

People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus — what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.

— Larry Dossey

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.--Three Daughters of Eve.

— Elif Shafak

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The pride Caspar had seen in his father’s eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Be Never afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.

— Raymond E. Feist