Quotes from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.